Principles of Microeconomics
Author: Edwin Mansfield
Among the most popular and successful texts available to economics students, Edwin Mansfield's books have been adopted at over 1,000 colleges and universities around the world. The hallmark qualities of Professor Mansfield's books are a careful integration of theory and example, meticulously clear writing style, and a step-by-step pedagogy.
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The Psychology of Economic Decisions, Volume 2: Reasons and Choices
Author: Isabelle Brocas
This volume brings together contributions to the burgeoning research area of behavioral economics from a number of well-known international scholars in the field. Topics covered include 'irrational' conducts; imperfect self-knowledge; imperfect memory; time and utility; and experimental practices in psychology, economics, and finance. This book will provide a point of entry to anyone wishing to discover what the intellectual terrain between economics and psychology looks like.
Table of Contents:
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| Introduction | ||
| 1 | The Psychology of Irrationality: Why People Make Foolish, Self-Defeating Choices | 3 |
| 2 | Irrational Pursuits: Hyper-Incentives From a Visceral Brain | 17 |
| 3 | The Pursuit and Assessment of Happiness can be Self-Defeating | 41 |
| 4 | Behavioral Policy | 73 |
| 5 | Information and Self-Control | 89 |
| 6 | Self-Signaling and Diagnostic Utility in Everyday Decision Making | 105 |
| 7 | Mental Accounting and the Absent-minded Driver | 127 |
| 8 | Self-Knowledge and Self-Regulation: An Economic Approach | 137 |
| 9 | A New Challenge for Economics: 'The Frame Problem' | 169 |
| 10 | Experienced Utility and Objective Happiness: A Moment-Based Approach | 187 |
| 11 | Making Sense: The Causes of Emotional Evanescence | 209 |
| 12 | Temporal Construal Theory of Time-Dependent Preferences | 235 |
| 13 | Economists' and Psychologists' Experimental Practices: How They Differ, Why They Differ, and How They Could Converge | 253 |
| 14 | Psychology and the Financial Markets: Applications to Understanding and Remedying Irrational Decision-Making | 273 |
| 15 | What Causes Nominal Inertia? Insights From Experimental Economics | 299 |
| Index | 315 |
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