Bounded rationality : heuristics, judgment, and public policy

Author(s)

• Dhami, Sanjit S.
• Sunstein, Cass R.

Bibliographic Information

Bounded rationality : heuristics, judgment, and public policy

Sanjit Dhami and Cass R. Sunstein

MIT Press, c2022

• : pbk

Note

Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-501) and index

Summary: "An accessible and self-contained treatment of the current state of thinking about rationality in economics and other social sciences"-- Provided by publisher

Contents of Works

• What is rationality and what is the evidence for it?
• The case for bounded rationality
• Behavioral models of heuristics-based choice
• Kahneman and Tversky's research program on heuristics and biases (HBP)
• The fast and frugal heuristics research program (FFP)
• Philosophical foundations
• Optimal taxation and regulation in behavioral economics
• Libertarian paternalism in theory
• Libertarian paternalism in practice

Details

• NCID: BC10943122
• ISBN:
  • 9780262543705
• LCCN: 2021037261
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 533 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HM495
  • DC23 : 300.1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Rational choice theory
  • LCSH : Rational choice theory -- Mathematical models
  • LCSH : Mathematical optimization
  • LCSH : Social sciences -- Methodology