Behavioural Economics and Experiments

<p><em>Behavioural Economics and Experiments</em> 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.</p><p>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:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Decision-making under uncertainty</li> <p> </p> <li>Firms’ pricing decisions</li> <p> </p> <li>Employment contracts</li> <p> </p> <li>Coordination failures in organizations</li> <p> </p> <li>Preventing bubbles in financial markets</li> </ul><p>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.</p>