Description
This is the third volume of focused texts developed from leading textbook The Foundations of Behavioral Economics. Authoritative, cutting edge, and accessible, this volume covers behavioral time discounting. Sanjit Dhami is Professor of Economics at the University of Leicester. He studied at the Delhi School of Economics and the University of Toronto for his Masters, MPhil, and PhD degrees in economics. He has previously taught at the Universities of Toronto, Essex, and Newcastle. His research has mainly focused on behavioral economic theory and its applications. He has published on the axiomatic foundations of the various components of prospect theory, behavioral political economy using other-regarding preferences, behavioral time preferences, foundations of behavioral game theory, and applications in tax evasion, stochastic dominance concepts under other-regarding preferences, and in behavioral law and economics. Preface to The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis; Introduction to Behavioral Economics and the Book Volumes; Introduction to Volume 3; 1 The Evidence on Temporal Human Choice; 2 Behavioral Models of Time Discounting; 3 Applications of Present-Biased Preferences; 4 A Guide to Further Reading
