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.
Introduction,Isabelle Brocas and Juan D. Carrillo Part I: The Causes and Consequences of 'Irrational' Conducts 1. The Psychology of Irrationality: Why people make foolish, self-defeating choices,Roy F. Baumeister 2. Irrational Pursuit: Hyper-incentives from a visceral brain,Kent Berridge 3. The Pursuit and Assessment of Happiness May Be Self-Defeating,Jonathan W. Schooler, Daniel Ariely, and George Loewenstein Part II: Imperfect Self-Knowledge and the Role of Information 4. Behavioral Policy,Andrew Caplin and John Leahy 5. Information and Self-Control,Isabelle Brocas and Juan D. Carrillo 6. Self-Signaling and Diagnostic Utility in Everyday Decision-Making,Ronit Bodner and Drazen Prelec Part III: Imperfect Memory and Limited Capacity to Process Information 7. Mental Accounting and the Absentminded Driver,Itzhak Gilboa and Eva Gilboa-Schechtman 8. Self-Knowledge and Self-Regulation: An economic approach,Roland Benabou and Jean Tirole 9. A New Challenge for Economics: 'The frame problem',Xavier Gabaix and David Laibson Part IV: Time and Utility 10. Experienced Utility and Objective Happiness: A moment-based approach,Daniel Kahneman 11. Making Sense: The causes of emotional evanescence,Timothy D. Wilson, Daniel Gilbert, and David B. Centerbar 12. Temporal Construal Theory of Time-Dependent Preferences,Yaacov Trope and Nira Liberman Part V: Experimental Practices in Psychology, Economics, and Finance 13. Economists' and PsyclC
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