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050 4 _aHB74.P8 .M355 2017
082 0 _a330.019
100 1 _aMallard.
245 1 0 _aBehavioural Economics.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aNewcastle Upon Tyne :
_bAgenda Publishing,
_c2017.
264 4 _c©2017.
300 _a1 online resource (136 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aThe Economy Key Ideas Series
505 0 _aIntro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chap 1 - Empiricism returns -- The 2008 financial crash -- The disagreement between friends -- The mainstream bit -- Behavioural economics -- Methodology -- Where we go from here -- Summary -- Notes -- Chap 2 - Evolution and revolution -- The classical era -- The marginal revolution -- The emergence of "the master" (Skidelsky 2009) -- Developments in the 1950s -- Modern behavioural economics -- Summary -- Notes -- Chap 3 - Preferences -- Loss aversion -- The endowment effect -- The status quo bias -- The reflection effect -- Ambiguity aversion and seeking -- The discounted utility model -- Hyperbolic discounting -- Alternative models of intertemporal decision-making -- Summary -- Chap 4 - Processes -- Bounded rationality and satisficing -- Prospect theory -- Mental accounting -- The power of reference points -- Other simplifying heuristics -- Decision fatigue -- Cognitive load -- Two systems of thinking -- Summary -- Note -- Chap 5 - Participation -- Goodwill games: the empirical evidence -- Goodwill games: altruism, inequity aversion and reciprocity -- Goodwill games: culture -- Goodwill games: the players -- Goodwill games: other findings -- Goodwill games: real life -- Emotions -- Herding -- Summary -- Chap 6 - Persuasion -- The decoy effect -- The importance of defaults -- Framing -- Priming -- Anchoring -- The case of organ donation -- But the backlash -- Summary -- Chap 7 - Reflections -- Competition, high stakes and experience -- Aggregation -- Unnecessary -- Compassion -- Weird findings from WEIRD experiments -- The fundamental weakness? -- The future -- Summary -- Glossary -- References -- Index.
520 _aAn introduction to the topic of behavioural economics for a beginning readership. It explains its approach and methodology and assesses its successes and weaknesses.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aEconomics-Psychological aspects.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aMallard
_tBehavioural Economics
_dNewcastle Upon Tyne : Agenda Publishing,c2017
_z9781911116400
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 4 _aThe Economy Key Ideas Series
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5778677
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