Sanjit DhamiPrinciples of Behavioral Economics
Microeconomics and Human Behavior
Sanjit Dhami is Professor of Economics at the University of Leicester. He is the author of the seven-volume book, The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis (2020), the leading graduate book in the area. He is also the co-author, with Cass Sunstein, of Bounded Rationality: Heuristics, Judgement, and Public Policy (2022). His research has addressed fundamental questions in behavioral economics and has spanned some of its major areas such as decision making under risk and uncertainty, other-regarding preferences, time discounting, game theory, and bounded rationality.
Part I. Behavioral Decision Theory: 1. The traditional approach to decision making under risk and subjective uncertainty
2. Modern approaches to decision making under risk and subjective uncertainty
Part II. Other Regarding Preferences: 3. Evidence on human pro-sociality, morality, and ethics
4. Theory and applications of pro-social behaviour
Part III. Behavioral Time Discounting: 5. The traditional approach to time preferences
6. Behavioral approaches to time preferences
Part IV. Behavioral Game Theory
7. Introduction to behavioral game theory
8. Topics in behavioral game theory
Part V. Bounded Rationality: 9. Bounded rationality I: judgement heuristics
10. Bounded rationality II: topics in bounded rationality
Part VI. Further Topics in Behavioral Economics: 11. A smorgasbord of topics in behavioral economics
12. Behavioral welfare economics.
