This paper provides evidence that some cities subject to a statewide tax limit manipulate their mix of productive and administrative services in an attempt to get voters to override the statewide limit. When a statewide limit reduces a city's budget, one manipulative response is to cut "service"...

The default model of economic choice--used in economics instruction and in the bulk of scholarship in microeconomics--assumes that decision makers are selfish. As shown by behavioral scientists, this assumption is consistent with chimpanzee behavior, but inconsistent with human behavior. Unlike...

As demonstrated in experiments by biologists and anthropologists, chimpanzees behave in a manner consistent with two key assumptions of economics--selfish behavior and independent decision-making. In contrast, human behavior is sometimes inconsistent with the assumptions: humans are inclined to...