Advanced introduction to behavioral economics
By: John F. Tomer (Emeritus Professor of Economics, Manhattan College, USA)
Series: Elgar advanced introductions; Elgar advanced introductions
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9781784719913; 9781784719937
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Economics; Psychological aspects
Other titles: Behavioral economics
Description: Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. Leading researcher John F. Tomer presents an invigorating and concise introduction to behavioral economics that offers essential behavioral theories, perspectives, trends and developments within this ever-evolving discipline. This book covers the key areas of behavioral economics, including Herbert Simon's bounded rationality, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky's psychological economics, behavioral finance, nudging and public policy, behavioral macroeconomics, law and behavioral economics, neuroeconomics and empirical methods of behavioral economics. John F. Tomer also explores how and why behavioral economics emerged and differs from neoclassical economics.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: The scientific practices of economics and the emergence of behavioral economics --; title: The practices and content of the bounded rationality strand --; title: The basics of the psychological economics strand --; title: Psychological economics: important further developments --; title: Behavioral finance --; title: Behavioral economics, public policy, and nudging --; title: Law and behavioral economics --; title: Behavioral macroeconomics --; title: The empirical methods of behavioral economics --; title: Are mainstream economics open-minded toward behavioral economics or do they resist it? --; title: Neuroeconomics --; title: Toward a more humanistic behavioral economics --; title: Behavioral economic trends --; title: Conclusion.