Economics and Psychology - Table of Contents

July 2007
6 x 9, 296 pp., 69 illus.
$32.00/£23.95 (CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-06263-1
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-06263-3

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	Series Foreword	vii

	List of Contributors	ix

I	Introduction Sample Chapter - Download PDF (77 KB)	1

1	Economics and Psychology Developments and Issues Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer	3

II	Pro-Social Behavior and Trust	17

2	Conditional Cooperation Behavioral Regularities from the Lab and the Field and Their Policy Implications Simon Gächter	19

3	A Survey of Economic Theories and Field Evidence on Pro-Social Behavior Stephan Meier	51

4	Why Women and Men Trust Others Iris Bohnet	89

III	Neuroeconomics	111

5	Neuroeconomics Illustrated by the Study of Ambiguity Aversion Colin F. Camerer, Meghana Bhatt and Ming Hsu	113

IV	Economics and Happiness	153

6	Happiness and Public Policy A Challenge to the Profession Richard Layard	155

7	What Happiness Research Can Tell Us about Self-Control Problems and Utility Misprediction Alois Stutzer and Bruno S. Frey	169

V	Procedural Utility and Decision-Making Mechanisms	197

8	The Relevance of Procedural Utility for Economics Matthias Benz	199

9	The Helping Hand—A Brief Anatomy Felix Oberholzer-Gee	229

VI	Evaluation	241

10	Efficient Social Engineering and Realistic Cognitive Modeling A Psychologist's Thoughts Ralph Hertwig	243

	Index Sample Chapter - Download PDF (73 KB)	271

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