Law and Economics of Irrational Behavior

Informationen zum Autor Francesco Parisi is Professor of Law and Director, Law and Economics Program, George Mason University School of Law. He is co-editor of The Law and Economics of the European Union (2003), Economic Foundations of Private Law (2002), and Law and Economics (1997). Vernon Smith is Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2002, and Professor of Economics and Law, George Mason University. Klappentext This collection of essays explores the most relevant developments at the interface of economics and psychology, giving special attention to models of irrational behavior, and draws the relevant implications of such models for the design of legal rules and institutions. The application of economic models of irrational behavior to law is especially challenging because specific departures from rational behavior differ markedly from one another. > Zusammenfassung This collection of essays explores the most relevant developments at the interface of economics and psychology, giving special attention to models of irrational behavior, and draws the relevant implications of such models for the design of legal rules and institutions.

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• Authors: Francesco (EDT)/ Smith Parisi, Francesco Smith Parisi
• Assisted by: Parisi Francesco (Editor), Francesco Parisi (Editor), Vernon Smith (Editor), Vernon L Smith (Editor), Vernon L. Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.01.2005
• EAN: 9780804751445
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5144-5
• No. of pages: 632
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 38 mm
• Series: Stanford Economics & Finance; Stanford Economics & Finance; Stanford Economics and Finance
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics