RPAD 645 assignments By an Amazon.com customer | |
 | Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $9.07 Required for everyone. |
 | The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris Buy used from: $10.28 Required for everyone |
 | How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life by Thomas Gilovich Buy new: $15.63 / Used from: $3.83 Required for everyone |
 | The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.74 Required for everyone |
 | Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge by Cass R. Sunstein Buy new: $10.38 / Used from: $4.15 Required for everyone |
 | Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny. Amartya Sen by Amartya Kumar Sen Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $3.64 Required for everyone. NOT a book that would usually be considered behavioral economics, but I think it fits very nicely with Akerlof's work on identity. |
 | Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond by Deepak Malhotra Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.11 Required for everyone |
 | Influence: Science and Practice (5th Edition) by Robert B. Cialdini Buy new: $14.08 / Used from: $9.52 |
 | Punitive Damages: How Juries Decide by Cass R. Sunstein Buy new: $30.00 / Used from: $3.00 One of the scariest books I've ever read! |
 | Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions by Gary Klein Buy new: $17.37 / Used from: $7.98 I find the discussion of the Vincennes incident particularly memorable. |
 | Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.06 |
 | The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely Buy new: $18.19 / Used from: $5.27 |
 | Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It by Max H. Bazerman Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $11.47 |
 | Motivational Interviewing, Second Edition: Preparing People for Change by William R. Miller Phd Buy new: $44.41 / Used from: $45.44 A psychiatry book, not a behavioral economics book, but a fascinating read; I assign this alongside the "multiple self" behavioral economics literature |
 | Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox Buy new: $26.56 / Used from: $16.50 |
 | Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle (The Seeley Lectures) by Cass R. Sunstein Buy new: $26.17 / Used from: $17.97 This book examines perspectives of risk, especially in terms of how entire societies become too afraid of some risks and insufficiently afraid of others. I assign this one in my health policy class. Its main examples deal with security issues. |
 | Inefficient Markets: An Introduction to Behavioral Finance (Clarendon Lectures in Economics) by Andrei Shleifer Buy new: $32.43 / Used from: $26.94 |
 | Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $15.00 This one just came out and has a high probability of being assigned next time. |
 | Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction (Roundtable Series in Behavioral Economics) by Colin F. Camerer Buy new: $85.77 / Used from: $32.14 I thought I'd include some more advanced texts for students interested in further reading. These next few are intended for academics.... |
 | Advances in Behavioral Economics (Roundtable Series in Behavioral Economics) Buy new: $51.68 / Used from: $37.59 |
 | Choices, Values, and Frames Buy new: $53.99 / Used from: $36.04 |
 | Judgment in Managerial Decision Making by Max H. Bazerman Buy new: $58.51 / Used from: $21.34 |
 | The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen Not a behavioral economics book, but one that has tremendously influenced my own thinking on behavioral economics. This book underlies a paper of mine that is assigned in the class. |
 | More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty by Dean Karlan See how experimental economics (and some behavioral economics) is being used in development |
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