Psychology of Economic Decisions Volume 1: Rationality and Well-Being

Name: Psychology of Economic Decisions Volume 1: Rationality and Well-Being
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ISBN: 9780199251063

ISBN-10: 0199251061

ISBN-13: 9780199251063

Edition: 2002

Authors: Isabelle Brocas, Juan D. Carrillo, Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain) Staff, Juan D. Carrillo, Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain) Staff

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A collection of carefully selected contributions to behavioral economics from some of the leading international scholars in the field. Designed to fully complement Volume One, topics covered include preferences, behavioral game theory, motivated mental states and emotions and decision making.

Book details

List price: $185.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/10/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 354
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.53" long x 0.96" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English



Introduction




The Causes and Consequences of 'Irrational' Conducts



The Psychology of Irrationality: Why people make foolish, self-defeating choices




Irrational Pursuit: Hyper-incentives from a visceral brain




The Pursuit and Assessment of Happiness May Be Self-Defeating




Imperfect Self-Knowledge and the Role of Information



Behavioral Policy




Information and Self-Control




Self-Signaling and Diagnostic Utility in Everyday Decision-Making




Imperfect Memory and Limited Capacity to Process Information



Mental Accounting and the Absentminded Driver




Self-Knowledge and Self-Regulation: An economic approach




A New Challenge for Economics: 'The frame problem'




Time and Utility



Experienced Utility and Objective Happiness: A moment-based approach




Making Sense: The causes of emotional evanescence




Temporal Construal Theory of Time-Dependent Preferences




Experimental Practices in Psychology, Economics, and Finance



Economists' and Psychologists' Experimental Practices: How they differ, why they differ, and how they could converge




Psychology and the Financial Markets: Applications to understanding and remedying irrational decision-making




What Causes Nominal Inertia? Insights from experimental economics