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The law and economics of irrational behavior

Manuscript, English, 2005
xvi, 613 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780804751438, 9780804751445, 0804751439, 0804751447
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Departures from rational choice : with and without regret / Robert Frank
Is the mind irrational or ecologically rational? / Gerd Gigerenzer
Lessons from neuroeconomics for the law / Kevin McCabe, Vernon Smith, and Terrence Chorvat
Treating yourself instrumentally : internalization, rationality and law / Robert Cooter
Addition, choice and irrationalit[y] / Ole Skog
Revenge and retaliation / Vincy Fon and Francesco Parisi
What makes trade possible? / Elizabeth Hoffman, Kevin McCabe, and Vernon Smith
Satisfaction and learning : an experimental game to measure happiness / Marco Novarese and Salvatore Rizzello
The market for laughter / F.H. Buckley
The jurisprudence of craziness / Stephen Morse
On law enforcement with boundedly rational actors / Christine Jolls
The biology of irrationality : crime and the contingency of deterrence / Michael O'Neill
Analyzing illicit drug markets when dealers act with limited rationality / Jonathan Caukins and Robert J. MacCoun
On the psychology of punishment / Cass Sunstein
Some well-aged wines for the "new norms" bottles : implications of social psychology for law and economics / Yuval Feldman and Robert MacCoun
Human fallibility and the forms of law : the case of traffic safety / Thomas Ulen
The free radicals of tort / Mark Grady
Probability errors : some positive and normative implications for tort and contract law / Eric Posner
Threatening an irrational breach of contract / Oren Bar-Gill and Omri Ben-Shahar
Regulating irrational exuberance and anxiety in securities markets / Peter Huang
In praise of investor irrationality / Jeffrey Rachlinski and Gregory LeBlanc