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1	Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions more books like this by Dan Ariely add to wishlist In the tradition of "Freakonomics" and "Blink," a behavioral economist argues that human behavior is often anything but rational--that thoughts are not random, but instead are systematic and predictable. see all copies from $11.14! new only from $11.14! \| signed copies \| SVS
2	Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism more books like this by George A Akerlof, Robert J Schilling add to wishlist The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, 'animal spirits' are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert ... see all copies from $12.48! new only from $16.95! \| SVS
3	Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness more books like this by Richard H Thaler, Cass R Sunstein add to wishlist Every day we make decisions on topics ranging from the personal investments we select to the schools we pick for our children to the foods we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, as authors Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein astutely observe, we don't always choose well. The reason, the authors explain, is that we all are susceptible to ... see all copies from $5.99! new only from $5.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street more books like this by Justin Fox add to wishlist "Fortune" editor Justin Fox captures the battle of ideas raging among the world's most prominent economists and investment gurus in a book that weaves compelling financial history and an essential investing text. see all copies from $11.49! new only from $14.00! \| SVS
5	Strategy: An Introduction to Game Theory more books like this by Joel Watson add to wishlist In "Strategy", Joel Watson has applied his strengths as both a leading researcher and an outstanding teacher and communicator to produce this winning textbook. Aimed towards advanced students in game theory, "Strategy" is rigorous and sophisticated in its approach. However the author presents material according to a minimalist philosophy, working ... see all copies from $30.24! new only from $33.63! \| SVS
6	The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go of the Old Ways of Thinking to Unleash a New Prosperity more books like this by Matt Miller add to wishlist A leading political and business thinker offers a unique blend of business-world acumen and public-policy vision to lay bare how conventional wisdom holds America back. The author introduces a new way of thinking--what he calls "tomorrow's destined ideas"--to reinvigorate the economy. see all copies from $10.75! new only from $13.23! \| signed copies \| SVS
7	The Economic Naturalists Field Guide: Common Sense Principles for Troubled Times more books like this by Robert H Frank add to wishlist The "New York Times" columnist and author of "The Economic Naturalist," Robert Frank returns to show how behavioral economics can illuminate some of the most important issues of our times see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
8	The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics more books like this by Michael Shermer add to wishlist Bestselling author and psychologist Shermer explains how evolution shaped the modern economy--and why people are so irrational about money. Drawing on the new field of neuroeconomics, Shermer investigates what brain scans reveal about bargaining, snap purchases, and establishing trust in business. see all copies from $2.97! new only from $4.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist more books like this by Tyler Cowen add to wishlist One of America's most respected economists presents a quirky, incisive romp through everyday life that reveals how to turn economic reasoning to one's advantage--often unexpectedly. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Advances in Behavioral Economics more books like this by Colin F Camerer (Editor), George Loewenstein (Editor), Matthew Rabin (Editor) add to wishlist Twenty years ago, behavioral economics did not exist as a field. Most economists were deeply skeptical - even antagonistic - toward the idea of importing insights from psychology into their field. Today, behavioral economics has become virtually mainstream. It is well represented in prominent journals and top economics departments, and behavioral ... see all copies from $51.46! new only from $51.46! \| SVS
11 view cover	Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World more books like this by Tyler Cowen add to wishlist In this revolutionary economics guide to life in the new technology-driven world, Cowen explains why the coming world of Web 3.0 is good, why social networking sites are necessary, and what's so great about texting. see all copies from $7.16! new only from $7.16! \| SVS
12 view cover	Economics 2.0: What the Best Minds in Economics Can Teach You about Business and Life more books like this by Norbert Haring, Olaf Storbeck add to wishlist Economists can help shape monetary policy, global policy and even how much you pay for a new pair of shoes. For example, do you know who benefits the most from globalization? How do fitness studios and providers of Internet access earn most of their money? - From the laziness and irrationality of their customers. Including contributions from top ... see all copies from $12.94! new only from $12.94! \| SVS
13 view cover	The New Economics of Human Behaviour more books like this by Mariano Tommasi (Editor), Kathryn Ierulli (Editor), Gary Stanley Becker (Editor) add to wishlist This book views important social and political issues from an economic perspective. This approach asserts that all actions, whether working, playing, dating, or mating, have economic motivations and consequences, and can be analyzed using economic reasoning. see all copies from $3.37! new only from $32.01! \| SVS
14 view cover	The Economy of Esteem: An Essay on Civil and Political Society more books like this by Geoffrey Brennan, Philip Pettit add to wishlist However much people want esteem, it is an untradable commodity: there is no way that I can buy the good opinion of another or sell to others my good opinion of them. But though it is a non-tradable good, esteem is allocated in society according to systematic determinants; people's performance, publicity, and presentation relative to others will ... see all copies from $27.02! new only from $28.00! \| first editions
15 view cover	Economics and Happiness: Framing the Analysis more books like this by Luigino Bruni, Pier Luigi Porta add to wishlist This book is the first of its kind to provide a comprehensive overview of happiness in Economics. Although it is comparatively unusual to put happiness and economics together, the association appears increasingly exciting and fruitful. A number of studies have been produced following Richard Easterlins and Tibor Scitovsky's pioneering works ... see all copies from $23.76! new only from $37.11! \| SVS
16 view cover	The Market Experience more books like this by Professor Robert E Lane add to wishlist In a period when market economics are widely recognised as the most desirable form of economic organisation, Robert Lane offers evidence that the major premises of market economics are mistaken. Lane shows that work, far from being a disutility, as economic theory would have it, is instead one of two major sources of lifetime satisfaction, and ... see all copies from $37.00! new only from $37.00! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Wired for Survival: The Rational (and Irrational) Choices We Make, from the Gas Pump to Terrorism more books like this by Margaret M Polski, James Woolsey (Foreword by) add to wishlist Lessons from the Cutting-Edge of Neuroscience: "Remapping" to Thrive in the New Global Economy! "Do you ever wonder how you think? If you do, this book will fascinate and inform you. If you don't, you will after reading this book. Either way, you'll enjoy learning how we don't usually do it as we think we do, how we may do it better for that very ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.25! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Hub Culture more books like this by Stan Stalnaker add to wishlist An in-depth look at one of the most influential marketing target groups to emerge from the 1990s - the global urban modernists, a network of modern individualists who now live in a post-national frame of mind and orient themselves around hub living. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.28! \| SVS
19	Adult Sibling Rivalry: Understanding the Legacy of Childhood more books like this by Dr. Jane Greer, Edward P Myers add to wishlist The childhood feeling of sibling rivalry can create tension and discontent throughout life. Now a nationally known psychotherapist explores how to turn this negative emotion into a positive influence . . . at work, at home, in all our relationships. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Two Minds more books like this by Roger S Frantz add to wishlist The "Two Minds" noted economist Roger Frantz explores in this landmark book are, first, the analytical mind and, second, the intuitive mind. In part one, he presents the leading theories on intuition, discusses recent developments in cognitive science, and borrows from such non-economist intuitors as Albert Einstein, Jonas Salk, Henri Poincare, ... see all copies from $47.24! new only from $82.71! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Behavioral Law and Economics more books like this by Cass R Sunstein (Editor), Lola Lopes (Editor), Hal R Arkes (Editor) add to wishlist This exciting volume marks the birth of a new field--a field that studies law with reference to an accurate, rather than a crude, understanding of human behavior. Behavioral Law and Economics presents new findings in cognitive psychology and behavioral economics, which show that people are frequently both unselfish and over-optimistic; that people ... see all copies from $27.75! new only from $33.95! \| SVS
22 view cover	Markets, Games, & Strategic Behavior more books like this by Charles A Holt add to wishlist Students become fluent in economics when they can apply the concepts in a real, decision-making and strategic environment. For this reason, an increasing number of professors are incorporating experiments into their undergraduate courses. In his new text, Charles Holt begins each chapter with a lead-off experiment designed as an organizing device ... see all copies from $31.95! new only from $58.87! \| SVS
23 view cover	Does Game Theory Work? the Bargaining Challenge more books like this by Ken Binmore add to wishlist This volume brings together all of Ken Binmore's influential experimental papers on bargaining along with newly written commentary in which Binmore discusses the underlying game theory and addresses the criticism leveled at it by behavioral economists. When Binmore began his experimental work in the 1980s, conventional wisdom held that game theory ... see all copies from $26.61! new only from $36.25! \| SVS
24 view cover	Happiness and Economics: How the Economy and Institutions Affect Human Well-Being more books like this by Bruno S Frey, Alois Stutzer add to wishlist Curiously, economists, whose discipline has much to do with human well-being, have shied away from factoring the study of happiness into their work. Happiness, they might say, is an 'unscientific' concept. This is the first book to establish empirically the link between happiness and economics - and between happiness and democracy. Two respected ... see all copies from $19.98! new only from $35.90!
25 view cover	Consuming Traditions: Modernity, Modernism, and the Commodified Authentic more books like this by Elizabeth Outka add to wishlist In an unprecedented phenomenon that swept across Britain at the turn of the nineteenth century, writers, advertisers, and architects began to create and sell images of an authentic cultural realm paradoxically considered outside the marketplace. Such images were located in nostalgic pictures of an idyllic, pre-industrial past, in supposedly ... see all copies from $30.00! new only from $35.60!

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