In Bounded Rationality and Politics, Jonathan Bendor considers two schools of behavioral economicsthe first guided by Tversky and Kahneman s work on heuristics and biases, which focuses on the mistakes people make in judgment and choice; the second as described by Gerd Gigerenzer s program on fast and frugal heuristics, which emphasizes the effectiveness of simple rules of thumb. Finding each of these radically incomplete, Bendor s illuminating analysis proposes Herbert Simon s pathbreaking work on bounded rationality as a way to reconcile the inconsistencies between the two camps....
In Bounded Rationality and Politics, Jonathan Bendor considers two schools of behavioral economicsthe first guided by Tversky and Kahneman s wo...
In Bounded Rationality and Politics, Jonathan Bendor considers two schools of behavioral economicsthe first guided by Tversky and Kahneman s work on heuristics and biases, which focuses on the mistakes people make in judgment and choice; the second as described by Gerd Gigerenzer s program on fast and frugal heuristics, which emphasizes the effectiveness of simple rules of thumb. Finding each of these radically incomplete, Bendor s illuminating analysis proposes Herbert Simon s pathbreaking work on bounded rationality as a way to reconcile the inconsistencies between the two camps....
In Bounded Rationality and Politics, Jonathan Bendor considers two schools of behavioral economicsthe first guided by Tversky and Kahneman s wo...
This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive sales taxes apply even to food for home consumption. Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. O Brien argue that these policies contribute in unrecognized ways to poverty-related problems like obesity, early mortality, the high school dropout rates, teen pregnancy, and crime. They show how, decades before California s passage of Proposition 13, many southern states implemented legislation that makes it almost impossible to...
This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income t...
Rebecca M. Blank offers the first comprehensive analysis of an economic trend that has been reshaping the United States over the past three decades: rapidly rising income inequality. In clear language, she provides an overview of how and why the level and distribution of income and wealth has changed since 1979, sets this situation within its historical context, and investigates the forces that are driving it. Among other factors, Blank looks closely at changes within families, including women s increasing participation in the work force. The book includes some surprising findingsfor example,...
Rebecca M. Blank offers the first comprehensive analysis of an economic trend that has been reshaping the United States over the past three decades: r...
In the United States, the soaring cost of health care has become an economic drag and a political flashpoint. Moreover, although the country's medical spending is higher than that of any other nation, health outcomes are no better than elsewhere, and in some cases are even worse. In The Quality Cure, renowned health care economist and former Obama advisor David Cutler offers an accessible and incisive account of the issues and their causes, as well as a road map for the future of health care reformone that shows how information technology, realigned payment systems, and value-focused...
In the United States, the soaring cost of health care has become an economic drag and a political flashpoint. Moreover, although the country's medical...
