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.
Translated title of the contribution | Antropología económica conductual |
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Original language | English (US) |
Title of host publication | Handbook of Behavioral Economics and Smart Decision-Making. Rational Decision-Making within the Bounds of Reason |
Editors | Morris Altman |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. |
Chapter | 13 |
Pages | 233-248 |
ISBN (Print) | 978 1 78254 957 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2017 |