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Springer Bounded Rationality And Public Policy A Perspective From Behavioural Economics 2009 Edition by Alistair Munro
This book is about bounded rationality and public policy. It is written from the p- spective of someone trained in public economics who has encountered the enormous literature on experiments in decision-making and wonders what implications it has for the normative aspects of public policy. Though there are a few new results or models to a large degree the book is synthetic in tone bringing together disparate literatures and seeking some accommodation between them. It has had a long genesis. It began with a draft of a few chapters in 2000 but has expanded in scope and size as the literature on behavioural economics has grown. At some point I realised that the geometric growth of behavioural - search and the arithmetic growth of my writing were inconsistent with an am- tion to be exhaustive. As such therefore I have concentrated on particular areas of behavioural economics and bounded rationality. The resulting book is laid out as follows: Chapter 1 provides an overview of the rest of the book goes through some basic de?nitions and identi?es themes. Table of contents : Anomalies.- Information Learning and Markets.- Markets and Reference Dependent Preferences.- Welfare.- Public Policy and Bounded Rationality.- Standard Fiscal Policy and Merit Wants.- Agency and Dependency.- Tax Policy.- Framing Matters: Non-Standard Fiscal Policy.- Stated Preference and Non-Market Decisions.