Table of Contents

Isabelle Brocas and Juan D. Carrillo: Introduction
Part I: The Causes and Consequences of 'Irrational' Conducts
1: Roy F. Baumeister: The Psychology of Irrationality: Why people make foolish, self-defeating choices
2: Kent Berridge: Irrational Pursuit: Hyper-incentives from a visceral brain
3: Jonathan W. Schooler, Daniel Ariely, and George Loewenstein: The Pursuit and Assessment of Happiness May Be Self-Defeating
Part II: Imperfect Self-Knowledge and the Role of Information
4: Andrew Caplin and John Leahy: Behavioral Policy
5: Isabelle Brocas and Juan D. Carrillo: Information and Self-Control
6: Ronit Bodner and Drazen Prelec: Self-Signaling and Diagnostic Utility in Everyday Decision-Making
Part III: Imperfect Memory and Limited Capacity to Process Information
7: Itzhak Gilboa and Eva Gilboa-Schechtman: Mental Accounting and the Absentminded Driver
8: Roland Benabou and Jean Tirole: Self-Knowledge and Self-Regulation: An economic approach
9: Xavier Gabaix and David Laibson: A New Challenge for Economics: 'The frame problem'
Part IV: Time and Utility
10: Daniel Kahneman: Experienced Utility and Objective Happiness: A moment-based approach
11: Timothy D. Wilson, Daniel Gilbert, and David B. Centerbar: Making Sense: The causes of emotional evanescence
12: Yaacov Trope and Nira Liberman: Temporal Construal Theory of Time-Dependent Preferences
Part V: Experimental Practices in Psychology, Economics, and Finance
13: Ralph Hertwig and Andreas Ortmann: Economists' and Psychologists' Experimental Practices: How they differ, why they differ, and how they could converge
14: Denis Hilton: Psychology and the Financial Markets: Applications to understanding and remedying irrational decision-making
15: Ernst Fehr and Jean-Robert Tyran: What Causes Nominal Inertia? Insights from experimental economics

About the Author

Isabelle Brocas is at the Department of Economics, Columbia University. She is also a research affiliate at CEPR, and co-editor of the Annals of the Marie Curie Fellows Association. Juan D. Carrillo is Associate Professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He is also a research affiliate at CEPR, and Associate Editor of the Spanish Economic Review.