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Behavioural Economics: A Very Short Introduction
Behavioural Economics: A Very Short Introduction

Behavioural Economics: A Very Short Introduction

著者: 
Michelle Baddeley
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  • Introduces the field of behavioural economics, analysing the motivations behind economic decisions
  • Shows the relevance of behavioural economics to our own lives and everyday economic and financial problems
  • Considers some of the mistakes that we make in our everyday decision-making, and the models that behavioural economists use to analyse our risky choices
  • Explores the influence of short-termism, impatience and the related problem of procrastination on our economic behaviour, and also personality, mood and emotions, and happiness and wellbeing

 
Traditionally economists have based their economic predictions on the assumption that humans are super-rational creatures, using the information we are given efficiently and generally making selfish decisions that work well for us as individuals. Economists also assume that we're doing the very best we can possibly do - not only for today, but over our whole lifetimes too. But increasingly the study of behavioural economics is revealing that our lives are not that simple. Instead, our decisions are complicated by our own psychology. Each of us makes mistakes every day. We don't always know what's best for us and, even if we do, we might not have the self-control to deliver on our best intentions. We struggle to stay on diets, to get enough exercise and to manage our money. We misjudge risky situations. We are prone to herding: sometimes peer pressure leads us blindly to copy others around us; other times copying others helps us to learn quickly about new, unfamiliar situations. 

This Very Short Introduction explores the reasons why we make irrational decisions; how we decide quickly; why we make mistakes in risky situations; our tendency to procrastination; and how we are affected by social influences, personality, mood and emotions. The implications of understanding the rationale for our own financial behaviour are huge. Behavioural economics could help policy-makers to understand the people behind their policies, enabling them to design more effective policies, while at the same time we could find ourselves assaulted by increasingly savvy marketing. Michelle Baddeley concludes by looking forward, to see what the future of behavioural economics holds for us.

目次: 

1: Introduction
2: Motivation and incentives
3: Quick thinking
4: Risky choices
5: Taking time
6: Social influences
7: Personality and emotions
8: Behavioural macroeconomics
9: Behavioural public policy
10: Behavioural economics: future prospects
References
Further Reading
Index

著者について: 

Michelle Baddeley is Professor in Economics and Finance at the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London (UCL), and before that was Director of Studies in Economics, Gonville & Caius College/Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. She has an active interest in public policy and is a member of the Hazardous Substances Advisory Committee (convened by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), and an Associate Fellow with the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), based at the University of Cambridge. She was a member of the Blackett Review Expert Panel: FinTech Futures 2014-15, led by Professor Sir Mark Walport, UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser. Her books include Behavioural Economics and Finance (Routledge, 2012), and Running Regressions: A practical guide to quantitative research in economics, finance and development studies, (CUP 2009), with Diana Barrowclough.

"Behavioural Economics is a valuable addition to Oxford University Press's Very Short Introduction series, being well-suited to an intelligent and curious reader with limited background in the area. Baddeley offers a broad range of concepts, thinkers, experiments and implications. The book made me curious: I found myself looking up more detailed explanations of key experiments as I moved across concepts and chapters. This is perhaps the biggest compliment of all." - Barton Edgerton, LSE Review of Books

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ISBN : 9780198754992

著者: 
Michelle Baddeley
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168 ページ
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Paperback
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111 x 174 mm
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Behavioural Economics: A Very Short Introduction

Behavioural Economics: A Very Short Introduction

Behavioural Economics: A Very Short Introduction