Adam Oliver

Gebundenes Buch

A Political Economy of Behavioural Public Policy

Beschreibung

"My aim in the Origins book was to outline the foundations and development of the relatively new subfield of behavioural public policy.2 Given that behavioural public policy is defined as the use of behavioural economics, and behavioural science more broadly, to inform public policy design, that book necessarily included a brief summary of the development of behavioural economics, and indeed of standard rational choice theory, also.3 In that vein, broadly speaking, the book considered two principal lines of inquiry: namely, the early challenges that questioned the descriptive validity of the axioms of expected utility theory (e.g. the Allais and Ellsberg paradoxes), and the suggestion that people employ decision-making heuristics - which challenges the assumption that they maximise expected utility -"--

Autor

Adam Oliver is a behavioural economist and behavioural public policy analyst at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has published and taught widely in the areas of health economics and policy, behavioural economics and behavioural public policy. He is a founding Editor in Chief of the journals, Health Economics, Policy and Law and Behavioural Public Policy. He edited the book, also titled Behavioural Public Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2013), and authored The Origins of Behavioural Public Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Reciprocity and the Art of Behavioural Public Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2019). He is the Chair of the International Behavioural Public Policy Association.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781009282567
• ISBN-10: 1009282565
• Artikelnr.: 65689776