This paper addresses the question of whether the findings of behavioral economics imply that techniques used in cost-benefit analysis should be modified. The findings of behavioral economics considered include the status-quo effect, loss-aversion, overconfidence and hyperbolic discounting. These...

Although it is common in economics to compare institutions on the basis of single dimensional measures of concepts such as efficiency, fairness or freedom, Allan Schmid's Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics rejects that approach with a sharply contrasting vision of...

This paper addresses the question of why, in spite of its recent success, behavioral economics does not influence most discussions about how economic policy ought to be made. Failing to penetrate into contemporary discourse on leading policy issues is a serious problem, because behavioral...