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Research handbook on behavioral law and economics.
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ISBN: 9781849805674 1849805679 9781849805681 1849805687 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cheltenham Edward Elgar Publishing

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The field of behavioral economics has contributed greatly to our understanding of human decision making by refining neoclassical assumptions and developing models that account for psychological, cognitive, and emotional forces. The field's insights have important implications for law. This Research Handbook offers a variety of perspectives from renowned experts on a wide-ranging set of topics including punishment, finance, tort law, happiness, and the application of experimental literatures to law. It also includes analyses of conceptual foundations, cautions, limitations and proposals for ways forward. The leading scholars of law, economics, and psychology featured in this Research Handbook use their insights to synthesize and contribute to the extant research at the intersection of behavioral economics and key areas of law, and to demonstrate methods for effective original research. With synthetic literature reviews and original research, conceptual overviews and critical perspectives, as well as topic-specific chapters, it provides a strong overview of this burgeoning field. Law and economics scholars, behavioral law scholars, and behavioral economists and psychologists dealing with law, judgement and decision-making will appreciate this Research Handbook's dedication to applicable research, and judges, lawmakers, policy advocates and regulators will note its important practical implications for law and public policy.

Behavioral law and economics
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ISBN: 0521667437 0521661358 1316046524 113917519X 9780521667432 9780521661355 9781139175197 Year: 2000 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This exciting volume marks the birth of a new field, one which attempts to study law with reference to an accurate understanding of human behavior. It reports new findings in cognitive psychology which show that people are frequently both unselfish and over-optimistic; that people have limited willpower and limited self-control; and that people are 'boundedly' rational, in the sense that they have limited information-processing powers, and frequently rely on mental short-cuts and rules of thumb. Understanding this behavior has large-scale implications for the analysis of law, in areas including environmental protection, taxation, constitutional law, voting behavior, punitive damages for civil rights violations, labor negotiations, and corporate finance. With a better knowledge of human behavior, it is possible to predict the actual effects of law, to see how law can promote society's goals, and to reassess the questions of what law should be doing.


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Behavioral law and economics
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ISBN: 9780190901356 0190901357 9780190901349 0190901349 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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