Policy and Choice: Public Finance Through the Lens of Behavioral Economics
- ISBN-10
- 0815704984
- ISBN-13
- 9780815704980
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 247
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Brookings Institution Press
- Authors
- William J. Congdon, Jeffrey R. Kling, Sendhil Mullainathan
Description
Argues that public finance--the study of the government's role in economics--should incorporate principles from behavior economics and other branches of psychology.
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