Do people provide assistance and share resources in the same ways and to the same degrees worldwide? Or does culture cause patterns of cooperative behavior to vary in appreciable ways? Previous ...

Western society typically promotes neo-liberal economic values of capital growth, both for the individual and society as a whole, as an ideal for prosperity. The basic idea is that free and ...

In all behavioural sciences, we observe huge interindividual variability in social behaviour. Individual humans and animals (from apes to social insects) differ in how they interact with other ...

The theoretical foundations of behavioral economics discussed in Chapter 3 have been used to design policies aimed at changing behavior. An outstanding question, however, is how these principles are ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Behavioral economics has had a growing influence on public policy over the past ...