Bounded Rationality and Public Policy: A Perspective from Behavioural Economics

di Alistair Munro (Autore)

Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 2009

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 ofthe book, goes through some basic de?nitions and identi?es themes.

• Autore: Alistair Munro
• Editore: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Collana: The Economics of Non-Market Goods and Resources
• Anno: 2009
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 304 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9781402094729

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