ABSTRACT

Behavioural Economics and Experiments addresses key topics within behavioural economics, exploring vital questions around decision-making and human nature. Assuming no prior knowledge of economics, the book features wide-ranging examples from literature, film, sport, neuroscience and beyond.

Ananish Chaudhuri explores the complex relationships between human behaviour, society and decision-making, introducing readers to the latest work on heuristics, framing and anchoring, as well as ideas around fairness, trust and social norms. The book offers a fresh perspective on issues such as:

  • Decision-making under uncertainty
  • Firms’ pricing decisions
  • Employment contracts
  • Coordination failures in organizations
  • Preventing bubbles in financial markets

This is an ideal introduction for students of behavioural economics, experimental economics and economic decision-making on economics, public policy, psychology and business-related programmes, and will also be accessible to policymakers and curious laymen.

chapter 1|29 pages

How we decide

chapter 2|20 pages

Experiments in behavioural economics

chapter 3|39 pages

Gut feelings and effortful thinking

chapter 5|28 pages

Probabilistic thinking

chapter 6|27 pages

Thinking strategically

chapter 7|31 pages

The ultimatum game

chapter 8|14 pages

Market implications of the ultimatum game

chapter 9|24 pages

Trust and trustworthiness in everyday life

chapter 10|23 pages

Trust and trustworthiness in markets

chapter 11|23 pages

Cooperation in social dilemmas

chapter 12|22 pages

The carrot or the stick

Sustaining cooperation in social dilemmas

chapter 13|33 pages

I will if you will

Resolving coordination failures in organizations

chapter 14|31 pages

Behavioural analyses of markets

chapter 15|30 pages

Asset bubbles in markets