Bounded Rationality and Public Policy: A Perspective from Behavioural Economics Contributor(s): Munro, Alistair (Author) |
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ISBN: 9048181348 ISBN-13: 9789048181346 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $208.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Public Finance - Business & Economics | Economics - Theory - Business & Economics | Environmental Economics |
Dewey: 330.019 |
Series: Economics of Non-Market Goods and Resources |
Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.05 lbs) 304 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book is about bounded rationality and public policy. It is written from the p- spective of someone trained in public economics who has encountered the enormous literature on experiments in decision-making and wonders what implications it has for the normative aspects of public policy. Though there are a few new results or models, to a large degree the book is synthetic in tone, bringing together disparate literatures and seeking some accommodation between them. It has had a long genesis. It began with a draft of a few chapters in 2000, but has expanded in scope and size as the literature on behavioural economics has grown. At some point I realised that the geometric growth of behavioural - search and the arithmetic growth of my writing were inconsistent with an am- tion to be exhaustive. As such therefore I have concentrated on particular areas of behavioural economics and bounded rationality. The resulting book is laid out as follows: Chapter 1 provides an overview of the rest of the book, goes through some basic de?nitions and identi?es themes. |