Bounded Rationality and Politics: Volume 6

by Jonathan Bendor

Book Overview

In Bounded Rationality and Politics, Jonathan Bendor considers two schools of behavioral economics--the 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520259475
• ISBN13: 9780520259478
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"