The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy

by Eldar Shafir

Book Overview

An interdisciplinary look at the behavioral roots of public policy from the field's leading experts

In recent years, remarkable progress has been made in behavioral research on a wide variety of topics, from behavioral finance, labor contracts, philanthropy, and the analysis of savings and poverty, to eyewitness identification and sentencing decisions, racism, sexism, health behaviors, and voting. Research findings have often been...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691137560
• ISBN13: 9780691137568
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.7" x 10.1"