Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics, 9781138953208
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Offering the comprehensive articulation of behavioral economics theory, this book includes coverage of critical areas such as the Economic Agent, Context and Modeling, Decision Making, Experiments and Implications, Labor Issues, Household and Family Issues, Life and Death, Taxation, Ethical Investme…

Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics

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    784 pages

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    26 August 2016

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Summary

At a time when both scholars and the public demand explanations and answers to key economic problems that conventional approaches have failed to resolve, this groundbreaking handbook of original works by leading behavioral economists offers the first comprehensive articulation of behavioral economics theory. Borrowing from the findings of psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, legal scholars, and biologists, among others, behavioral economists find that intelligent individuals oft…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781138953208
ISBN-10:1138953202
Author:Morris Altman
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:Routledge
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:784
Release Date:26 August 2016
Weight:1.38kg
Dimensions:246mm x 174mm
About The Author

Morris Altman

Morris Altman received his Ph.D. in economics from McGill University. He is a former visiting scholar at Cornell, Duke, Hebrew, and Stanford universities, is professor and head of the Department of Economics at the University of Saskatchewan, and is an elected fellow of the World Innovation Foundation (WIF). He is president of the Society for Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE) and is editor of the Journal of Socio-Economics. Altman has published more than seventy scholarly papers in behavioral economics, economic history, institutional economics, and empirical macroeconomics. He has also published Human Agency and Material Welfare: Revisions in Microeconomics and Their Implications for Public Policy (1996) and Worker Satis[1]faction and Economic Performance (2001) and is currently completing two other books, one related to behavioral labor and the other to behavioral growth theory. He is also currently writing on issues related to economics and ethics, choice behavior, human and labor rights and growth, and the methodologies underlying behavioral economics.

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