did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

We're the #1 textbook rental company. Let us show you why.

9780199257225

The Psychology of Economic Decisions Volume 2: Reasons and Choices

by ;
  • ISBN13:

    9780199257225

  • ISBN10:

    0199257221

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-09-30
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Purchase Benefits

  • Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping On Orders Over $35!
    Your order must be $35 or more to qualify for free economy shipping. Bulk sales, PO's, Marketplace items, eBooks and apparel do not qualify for this offer.
  • eCampus.com Logo Get Rewarded for Ordering Your Textbooks! Enroll Now
  • Write a Review Icon Write a Review
List Price: $71.46 Save up to $26.44
  • Rent Book $45.02
    Add to Cart Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping

    TERM
    PRICE
    DUE
    USUALLY SHIPS IN 3-5 BUSINESS DAYS
    *This item is part of an exclusive publisher rental program and requires an additional convenience fee. This fee will be reflected in the shopping cart.

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

Summary

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.

Author Biography


Isabelle Brocas is Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California, and Assistant Professor (on leave) at the Free University of Brussels. She is also a research affiliate at CEPR, a research advisor at EERC (Russia), and co-editor of the 'Annals of Marie Curie Fellows Association'. Juan D. Carrillo is Associate Professor at the University of Southern California, and is currently on leave from the Free University of Brussels. He is also a research affiliate at CEPR, a research advisor at EERC (Russia), and Associate Editor of the Spanish Economic Review.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Beliefs: Origins, Formation, and Evolution
Costs and constraints in the economy of the mind
Understanding under- and over-reaction
Self-serving beliefs and the pleasure of outcomes
Dynamic Choices: Consistency, Commitment and Intertemporal Separability
Commitment devices under self-control problems: an overview
Consistent intertemporal decision making through memory and anticipation
Dynamic decisions under uncertainty: some recent evidence from economics and psychology
Limited Cognition: Attention, Preference Formation and Risk Evaluation
Thinking about attention in games: backward and forward induction
Arbitrarily coherent preferences
Perception matters: psychophysics for economists
Affective Behavior: The Role of Emotions in Decision-Making
The dark-side of opportunity: regret, disappointment and the cost of prospects
Poe: Mood regulation and decision-making: is irrational exuberance really a problem?
Which chance was lost? The psychology of damage awards under the loss of chance doctrine
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Rewards Program