Exotic Preferences: Behavioral Economics and Human Motivation - Rilegato

Loewenstein, George

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ISBN 10: 0199257078 ISBN 13: 9780199257072

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2007

Riassunto

George Loewenstein is one of the pioneers of the rapidly growing field of behavioral economics. For over twenty years he has been working at the intersection of economics and psychology and is one of the few people of whom it can be said that their work is equally respected and well known within both disciplines. This book brings together a selection of his papers focusing on what he calls "exotic preferences"― the disparate motives that drive human behavior. In addition to covering the history and methodology of behavioral economics, they also touch on a wide range of fascinating topics such as the motives that drive extreme athletes, our propensity to want to get unpleasant experiences out of the way so we can focus on the more pleasant, and the psychology of curiosity. There are also papers on social preferences, discussing the importance of perceptions of fairness in interpersonal interactions, intertemporal choice― the tradeoffs between costs and benefits occurring at different points in time― and the impact of emotion on economic decision making. An original introduction outlines Loewenstein's general approach to research, and there are short introductions to each paper outlining briefly when, how and why they came to be written, providing a fascinating and vivid insight into the process of intellectual creativity.

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L'autore:

George Loewenstein, one of the founders of the field of behavioral economics and of the new field of neuroeconomics, is the Herbert A. Simon Professor of Economics and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his PhD in economics from Yale University in 1985 and since then has held academic positions at the University of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon University, and fellowships at Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, The Russell Sage Foundation and The Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. His research focuses on applications of psychology to economics. Loewenstein has published more than 100 journal articles in economics, psychology, law, business and medicine as well as numerous books and book chapters. He is the former president of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making.

Contenuti:

• George Loewenstein: Introduction
• General Perspectives, History, and Methods
• 1: George Loewenstein: Because it is There: The Challenge of Mountaineering...for Utility Theory
• 2: George Loewenstein, Niklas Karlsson, and Jane McCafferty: The Economics of Meaning
• 3: George Loewenstein: The Fall and Rise of Psychological Explanations in the Economics of Intertemporal Choice
• 4: George Loewenstein, Nava Ashraf, and Colin F. Camerer: Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist
• 5: George Loewenstein: Experimental Economics from the Vantage-point of Behavioral Economics
• 6: George Loewenstein: The Psychology of Curiosity: A Review and Reinterpretation
• Social Preferences
• 7: George Loewenstein, Max H. Bazerman, and Leigh Thompson: Social Utility and Decision Making in Interpersonal Contexts
• 8: George Loewenstein and Linda Babcock: Explaining the Bargaining Impasse: The Role of Self-Serving Biases
• Basic Research on Preferences
• 9: George Loewenstein, Max H. Bazerman, Sally Blount, and Christopher K. Hsee: Preference Reversals Between Joint and Seperate Evaluations of Options: A Review and Theoretical Analysis
• 10: George Loewenstein, Dan Ariely, and Drazen Prelec: "Coherent Arbitrariness": Stable Demand Curves Without Staple Preferences
• Predicting Tastes and Feelings
• 11: George Loewenstein and Daniel Adler: A Bias in the Prediction of Tastes
• 12: George Loewenstein, Leaf Van Boven, and David Dunning: Mispredicting the Endowment Effect: Understimation of owners' selling prices by buyer's agents
• 13: George Loewenstein, Ted O'Donoghue, and Matthew Rabin: Projection Bias in Predicting Future Utility
• Intertemporal Choice
• 14: George Loewenstein: Anticipation and the Valuation of Delayed Consumption
• 15: George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec: Anomalies in Intertemporal Choice: Evidence and an Interpretation
• 16: George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec: Preferences for Sequences of Outcomes
• 17: George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec: The Red and the Black: Mental Accounting of Savings and Debt
• Emotions
• 18: George Loewenstein: Out of Control: Visceral Influences on Behavior
• 19: George Loewenstein, Christopher K. Hsee, Elke U. Weber, and Ned Welch: Risk as Feelings
• 20: George Loewenstein, Baba Shiv, Antoine Bechara, Hanna Damasio, and Antonio Damasio: Investment Behavior and the Dark Side of Emotion
• 21: George Loewenstein, Jennifer Lerner, and Deborah Small: Heart Strings and Purse Strings: Carryover Effects of Emotions on Economic Decisions
• 22: George Loewenstein, Jonathan D. Cohen, David I. Laibson, and Samuel M. McClure: Separate Neural Systems Value Immediate and Delayed Monetary Rewards

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• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0199257078
• ISBN 13: 9780199257072
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 688