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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....