The Psychology of Economic Decisions

Isabelle Brocas and Juan D. Carrillo: Introduction Part I: The Causes and Consequences of 'Irrational' Conducts 1: Roy F. Baumeister: The Psychology of Irrationality: Why people make foolish, self-defeating choices 2: Kent Berridge: Irrational Pursuit: Hyper-incentives from a visceral brain 3: Jonathan W. Schooler, Daniel Ariely, and George Loewenstein: The Pursuit and Assessment of Happiness May Be Self-Defeating Part II: Imperfect Self-Knowledge and the Role of Information 4: Andrew Caplin and John Leahy: Behavioral Policy 5: Isabelle Brocas and Juan D. Carrillo: Information and Self-Control 6: Ronit Bodner and Drazen Prelec: Self-Signaling and Diagnostic Utility in Everyday Decision-Making Part III: Imperfect Memory and Limited Capacity to Process Information 7: Itzhak Gilboa and Eva Gilboa-Schechtman: Mental Accounting and the Absentminded Driver 8: Roland Benabou and Jean Tirole: Self-Knowledge and Self-Regulation: An economic approach 9: Xavier Gabaix and David Laibson: A New Challenge for Economics: 'The frame problem' Part IV: Time and Utility 10: Daniel Kahneman: Experienced Utility and Objective Happiness: A moment-based approach 11: Timothy D. Wilson, Daniel Gilbert, and David B. Centerbar: Making Sense: The causes of emotional evanescence 12: Yaacov Trope and Nira Liberman: Temporal Construal Theory of Time-Dependent Preferences Part V: Experimental Practices in Psychology, Economics, and Finance 13: Ralph Hertwig and Andreas Ortmann: Economists' and Psychologists' Experimental Practices: How they differ, why they differ, and how they could converge 14: Denis Hilton: Psychology and the Financial Markets: Applications to understanding and remedying irrational decision-making 15: Ernst Fehr and Jean-Robert Tyran: What Causes Nominal Inertia? Insights from experimental economics