One of the most exciting recent innovations in the social sciences has been the emergence of 'behaviour economics', which extends the notion of rational choice to allow for both motivation beyond self-interest and intuitions that cannot be reduced to the logic of a situation. This new book by Howard Margolis demonstrates how an account of widely-discussed topics, from tipping points in social choice to cognitive illusions and experimental anomalies, can be brought within a coherent framework.
Starting from Darwin's own comments on the origins of moral concerns and from a review of...
One of the most exciting recent innovations in the social sciences has been the emergence of 'behaviour economics', which extends the notion of rat...