Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- List of Contributors -- Chapter one. Introduction / Diamond, Peter / Vartiainen, Hannu -- Chapter two. Behavioral Public Economics:Welfare and Policy Analysis with Nonstandard Decision-Makers / Bernheim, B. Douglas / Rangel, Antonio -- Chapter three....

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART I: Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Behavioral Economics: Past, Present, Future / Camerer, Colin F. / Loewenstein, George -- PART II: Basic Topics -- REFERENCE-DEPENDENCE AND LOSS-AVERSION -- CHAPTER TWO....

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