Behavioural and Experimental Economics [Paperback]

Specially selected from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd edition, each article within this compendium covers the fundamental themes within the discipline and is written by a leading practitioner in the field. A handy reference tool.Contents General Preface Introduction List of Contributors List of Entries Entries A-Z Index

Praise for the 8-volume edition:

Winner of the 2008 PROSE Award: Best Mutlivolume Reference Work in the Humanitiesand Social Sciences

(from the Professional and Scholarly Division of the Association of American Publishers)

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2008

Much has changed in the latest incarnation of this dictionary. ...More than 1,500 economists contributed almost 1,900 signed entries; more than 1,000 of the entries are new or 'heavily revised' and expanded. Along with the descriptions of economic method from earlier editions, this edition includes much information on 'what those methods have found.' It also offers new emphasis on advances that have occurred in microeconomics, Bayesian theory, game theory, and behavioral, international, and experimental economics. ...A regularly updated online version of the dictionary is available www.dictionaryofeconomics.com, with site license pricing based on institution type and FTE. Summing Up: Highly recommended

LISA ANDERSON College of William and Mary, USAJAMES ANDREONI University of California San Diego, USASHERYL BALL Virginia Tech, USAROBERT BLOOMFIELD Cornell University, USAIRIS BOHNET Harvard University, USAROB BOYD University of California Los Angeles, USACOLIN F. CAMERER California Institute of Technology, USAJEFFREY CARPENTER Middlebury College, USAYAN CHEN University of Michigan, USARACHEL T. A. CROSON University of Pennsylvania, USADOUG DAVIS Virginia Commonwealth University, USAJOHN DUFFY University of Pittsburgh, USAARMIN FALK University of Bonn, GermanyDANIEL FRIEDMAN University of Call"