Research Catalog

Title

Behavioral law and economics / edited by Cass R. Sunstein.

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors

Sunstein, Cass R.

Description

xiv, 431 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"People are frequently both unselfish and overly optimistic; they have limited willpower and limited self-control; and they often rely on mental shortcuts and rules of thumb. What do these traits have to do with law? This is the question considered in Behavioral Law and Economics, the first book to analyze law by looking at how people actually behave."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Cambridge series on judgment and decision making

Uniform Title

Cambridge series on judgment and decision making

Subject

Law and economics > Psychological aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A behavioral approach to law and economics / Christine Jolls, Cass R. Sunstein, and Richard H. Thaler -- Context-dependence in legal decision making / Mark Kelman, Yuval Rottenstreich, and Amos Tversky -- A positive psychological theory of judging in hindsight / Jeffrey J. Rachlinski -- Behavioral economics, contract formation, and contract law / Russell Korobkin -- Organized illusions : a behavioral theory of why corporations mislead stock market investors (and cause other social harms) / Donald C. Langevoort -- Reluctance to vaccinate : omission bias and ambiguity / Ilana Ritov and Jonathan Baron -- Second-order decisions / Cass R. Sunstein and Edna Ullmann-Margalit -- Experimental tests of the endowment effect and the Coase theorem / Daniel Kahneman, Jack L. Knetsch, and Richard H. Thaler -- Assessing punitive damages (with notes on cognition and valuation in law) / Cass R. Sunstein, Daniel Kahneman, and David Schkade -- Framing the jury : cognitive perspective on pain and suffering awards / Edward J. McCaffery, Daniel J. Kahneman, and Matthew L. Spitzer -- Behavioral economic analysis of redistributive legal rules / Christine Jolls -- Do parties to nuisance cases bargain after judgment? A glimpse inside the cathedral / Ward Farnsworth -- Some implications of cognitive psychology for risk regulation / Roger G. Noll and James E. Krier -- Explaining bargaining impasse : the role of self-serving biases / Linda Babcock and George Loewenstein -- Controlling availability cascades / Timur Kuran and Cass R. Sunstein -- Cognitive theory and tax / Edward J. McCaffery.

ISBN

• 0521661358 (hb)
• 0521667437 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^99031294^

OCLC

41361507

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library