Lionel Page

Optimally Irrational (eBook, PDF)

The Good Reasons We Behave the Way We Do

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The seemingly irrational, puzzling aspects of human behaviour are not bugs, but features. Improving our navigation of the real world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009209168
• Artikelnr.: 70912319

Autorenporträt

Lionel Page is a Professor of Economics and the Director of the Behavioural and Economic Science Cluster at the University of Queensland. He has worked on a wide range of topics in behavioural economics, such as risk preferences, social preferences and strategic behaviour.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. The homo economius model
2. The psychology of biases in human behaviour
3. The logic of a scientific revolution in economics
4. Evolution and the logic of optimism
Part II. Individual Decisions: 5. Rules of thumb and gut feelings
6. Reference points and aversion to losses
7. Sensitivity to probability
8. The randomness of choices
9. Impatience
Part III. Social interactions
10. Kindness and reciprocity
11. Emotions and commitment
12. Social identity
13. Impression management
14. Selection of delusion
Part IV. Epilogue
15. Rationality?