Heuristics and the Law

by Gerd Gigerenzer

Experts in law, psychology, and economics explore the power of "fast and frugal" heuristics in the creation and implementation of law

In recent decades, the economists' concept of rational choice has dominated legal reasoning. And yet, in practical terms, neither the lawbreakers the law addresses nor officers of the law behave as the hyperrational beings postulated by rational choice. Critics of rational choice and believers in "fast and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262072750
• ISBN13: 9780262072755
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher