Frontmatter
Contents
Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
I. Irrationality and Bounded Rationality in Law, Psychology, and Economics
Chapter 1. Departures from Rational Choice: With and Without Regret
Chapter 2. Is the Mind Irrational or Ecologically Rational?
Chapter 3. Lessons from Neuroeconomics for the Law
Chapter 4. Treating Yourself Instrumentally: Internalization, Rationality, and the Law
II. The Economics of Irrational Behavior
Chapter 5. Addiction, Choice, and Irrationality
Chapter 6. Revenge and Retaliation
Chapter 7. What Makes Trade Possible?
Chapter 8. Satisfaction and Learning: An Experimental Game to Measure Happiness
Chapter 9. The Market for Laughter
III. The Jurisprudence of Irrational Behavior: Rethinking Law as a Behavioral Instrument
Chapter 10. The Jurisprudence of Craziness
Chapter 11. On Law Enforcement with Boundedly Rational Actors
Chapter 12. The Biology of Irrationality: Crime and the Contingency of Deterrence
Chapter 13. Analyzing Illicit Drug Markets When Dealers Act with Limited Rationality
Chapter 14. On the Psychology of Punishment
Chapter 15. Some Well-Aged Wines for the "New Norms" Bottles: Implications of Social Psychology for Law and Economics
IV. Irrational Behavior and the Design of Law
Chapter 16. Human Fallibility and the Forms of Law: The Case of Traffic Safety
Chapter 17. The Free Radicals of Tort
Chapter 18. Probability Errors: Some Positive and Normative Implications for Tort and Contract Law
Chapter 19. Threatening an "Irrational" Breach of Contract
Chapter 20. Regulating Irrational Exuberance and Anxiety in Securities Markets
Chapter 21. In Praise of Investor Irrationality
Index