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Christoph Engel

Christoph Engel is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, and a member of the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Bonn. He is the author of Generating Predictability: Institutional Analysis and Design and other books.

Titles by This Editor

Better Than Conscious?

DECISION MAKING, the HUMAN MIND, and IMPLICATIONS FOR INSTITUTIONS
Edited by Christoph Engel and Wolf Singer

Heuristics and the Law

Edited by Gerd Gigerenzer and Christoph Engel

In recent decades, the economists' concept of rational choice has dominated legal reasoning. And yet, in practical terms, neither the lawbreakers the law addresses nor officers of the law behave as the hyperrational beings postulated by rational choice.