The problem with traditional economic models of choice -- How behavioral economics makes the same mistakes -- How behavioral economics met law and economics and begat nudge -- Why nudges can't do what they promise -- Why nudges are unethical -- All nudges are not created equal -- Why choice...

Im deutschen Sprachraum werden Fragen der Wirtschaftsethik oft ausschließlich als Problem der institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen aufgefaßt. In den hier versammelten Beiträgen dagegen diskutieren Ökonomen und Philosophen unter welchen Bedingungen Moral auch in ökonomischen Entscheidungen...

This timely book makes a forceful argument that the analyses from behavioral economists are incomplete, the policies advocated by libertarian paternalists are misguided and unethical, and both actually reinforce the cognitive biases and dysfunctions that motivate 'nudges' in the first place. In...

By using a choice experiment, this paper focuses on citizens' preferences for effort-sharing rules of how carbon abatement should be shared among countries. We find that Swedes do not rank the rule favoring their own country highest. Instead, they prefer the rule where all countries are allowed...

Erat and Gneezy (2012) conduct an experiment to test whether people avoid lying in a situation where doing so would lead to a Pareto improvement. They conclude that many people exhibit such a "pure lie aversion." I argue that the experiment does not provide a reliable test for such an aversion,...