Handbook of Behavioural Economics and Smart Decision-Making

Edited by Morris Altman ()

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Abstract: This Handbook is a unique and original contribution of over thirty chapters on behavioural economics, examining and addressing an important stream of research where the starting assumption is that decision-makers are for the most part relatively smart or rational. This particular approach is in contrast to a theme running through much contemporary work where individuals’ behaviour is deemed irrational, biased, and error-prone, often due to how people are hardwired. In the smart people approach, where errors or biases occur and when social dilemmas arise, more often than not, improving the decision-making environment can repair these problems without hijacking or manipulating the preferences of decision-makers. This book covers a wide-range of themes from micro to macro, including various sub-disciplines within economics such as economic psychology, heuristics, fast and slow-thinking, neuroeconomics, experiments, the capabilities approach, institutional economics, methodology, nudging, ethics, and public policy.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
ISBN: 9781782549574
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction to smart decision-making , pp 1-8

Morris Altman

Ch 2 Rational inefficiency: smart thinking, bounded rationality and the scientific basis for economic failure and success , pp 11-42

Morris Altman

Ch 3 Rational mistakes that make us smart , pp 43-67

Nathan Berg

Ch 4 Rational choice as if the choosers were human , pp 68-85

Peter Boettke and Rosolino A. Candela

Ch 5 Smart predictions from wrong data: the case of ecological correlations , pp 86-100

Florian Kutzner and Tobias Vogel

Ch 6 Heuristics: fast, frugal, and smart , pp 101-118

Shabnam Mousavi, Björn Meder, Hansjörg Neth and Reza Kheirandish

Ch 7 The beauty of simplicity? (Simple) heuristics and the opportunities yet to be realized , pp 119-136

Andreas Ortmann and Leonidas Spiliopoulos

Ch 8 Smart persons and human development: the missing ingredient in behavioral economics , pp 137-154

John Tomer

Ch 9 Behavioral strategy at the frontline: insights and inspirations from the US Marine Corps , pp 157-172

Mie Augier

Ch 10 Feminist economics for smart behavioral economics , pp 173-187

Siobhan Austen

Ch 11 How regret moves individual and collective choices towards rationality , pp 188-204

Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde

Ch 12 Is it rational to be in love? , pp 205-232

Paul Frijters and Gigi Foster

Ch 13 Behavioral economic anthropology , pp 233-248

Giuseppe Danese and Luigi Mittone

Ch 14 Do changes in farmers’ seed traits align with climate change? A case study of maize in Chiapas, Mexico , pp 251-274

C. Leigh Anderson, Andrew Cronholm and Pierre Biscaye

Ch 15 Rationality, globalization, and X-efficiency among fi nancial institutions , pp 275-289

Roger Frantz

Ch 16 The evolution of governance structures in a polycentric system , pp 290-314

Edward McPhail and Vlad Tarko

Ch 17 Taxation and nudging , pp 317-330

Simon James

Ch 18 Income tax compliance , pp 331-346

Erich Kirchler, Barbara Hartl and Katharina Gangl

Ch 19 Financial decisions in the household , pp 349-365

Bernadette Kamleitner, Till Mengay and Erich Kirchler

Ch 20 Employing priming to shed light on financial decision-making processes , pp 366-374

Doron Kliger

Ch 21 Experimental asset markets: behavior and bubbles , pp 375-391

Owen Powell and Natalia Shestakova

Ch 22 To consume or to save: are we maximizing or what? , pp 392-410

Tobias F. Rötheli

Ch 23 Time orientation effects on health behavior , pp 413-428

Jannette van Beek, Michel J.J. Handgraaf and Gerrit Antonides

Ch 24 Behavioral aspects of obesity , pp 429-448

Odelia Rosin

Ch 25 Time inconsistent preferences in intertemporal choices for physical activity and weight loss: evidence from Canadian health surveys , pp 449-463

Nazmi Sari

Ch 26 Suicide among smart people , pp 464-476

Bijou Yang and David Lester

Ch 27 Seeing and knowing others: the impact of social ties on economic interactions , pp 479-491

Astrid Hopfensitz

Ch 28 Weakness of will and stiffness of will: how far are shirking, slackening, favoritism, spoiling of children, and pornography from obsessivecompulsive behavior? , pp 492-514

Elias Khalil

Ch 29 The role of identity, personal and social capital in community crime prevention , pp 515-525

Ambrose Leung and Brandon Harrison

Ch 30 Norms, culture, and cognition , pp 526-540

Shinji Teraji

Ch 31 Rational choice in public and private spheres , pp 543-556

Herbert Gintis

Ch 32 Ethics and simple games , pp 557-572

Mark Pingle

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