The use of behavioural science to inform policy is one of the main developments in the social sciences over the last several decades. In this book, Adam Oliver offers an accessible introduction to the development of behavioural public policy, examining how behavioural economics might be used to...

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Assuming rationality -- Challenging rationality -- Describing risky behaviours -- About time -- Experiencing and remembering -- Motivational crowding -- Nudges -- Shoves and budges -- Give and take -- Summing up -- Note on references -- Bibliography -- Index

This new and original collection of papers focuses on the intersection of three strands of research: evolutionary economics, behavioral economics, and management studies. Combining theoretical and empirical contributions, the expert contributors demonstrate that the intersection of these fields...

Die Evolution als Grundlage allen Verhaltens -- Das Statusziel -- Wie das Gehirn entscheidet -- Die Rolle der Arbeitsteilung -- Heuristisches Entscheiden -- Die Protagonisten -- Gerechtigkeit und gerechtes Teilen -- Moral und Religion -- Vertrauen -- Individuelle und kollektive Schutzmaßnahmen...

Das Versagen der ökonomischen Theorie in der Praxis- Beispiele -- Analyse der Gründe und Ursachen -- Berücksichtigung realer Voraussetzungen und deren Zusammenhänge in ökonomischen Modellen -- Empfehlungen -- Resümee und Vergleich mit anderen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen und deren...

1 Overview of Behavioral Economics and Policy -- 2 The Four Pillars of Behavioral Paternalism -- 3 Failing Better: What We Learn by Confronting Risk and Uncertainty -- 4 Behavioral Nudges and Consumer Technology -- 5 Private-Sector Nudging: The Good, the Bad, and the Uncertain -- 6 Who Should...

Economists’ “Irrational Passion for Dispassionate Rationality” -- The Methodological Constraints on the Rationality Premise -- Human Motivation and Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hands” -- Rationality in Economic Thought: From Thomas Robert Malthus to Alfred Marshall and Philip Wicksteed --...

Exceptional Academic Behavior -- Reinhard Selten a Wanderer -- Encounters with Reinhard Selten: An Office Mate’s Report -- Reinhard Selten’s Frankfurt Years from the Perspective of a Co-player -- Reinhard Selten and the Scientific Climate in Frankfurt During the Fifties -- Reinhard Selten...