Behavioral Law and Economics (Cambridge Series on Judgment and Decision Making)

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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 have limited willpower and limited self-control; and that people are "boundedly" rational, in the sense that they have limited information-processing powers, and frequently rely on mental short-cuts and rules of thumb. Understanding this kind of human behavior has large-scale implications for the analysis of law, in areas including environmental protection, taxation and tax compliance, constitutional law, voting behavior, punitive damages for civil rights violations, labor negotiations and strikes, and corporate finance. Behavioral Law and Economics offers many new insights into these fields and suggestions for legal reform. With a better knowledge of human behavior, it is possible to predict the actual effects of law, to see how law might actually promote society's goals, and to reassess the questions of what law should be doing.

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Behavioral Economics Comes of Age.......2001-08-24

There are several prominent legal scholars who work in the interface of social theory and law, but Cass Sunstein is, to my mind, one of the very few really innovative thinkers with full control of social theory. This edited collection shows that the approach he has been working on for the past several years, has finally come of age.

The first synthesis of law and economics took place several decades ago, based on the seminal work of Nobel prize winning Chicago economist Ronald Coase. The synthesis was based on the so-called "rational actor model" (often called homo Economicus) that can be derived from certain axiomatic, mathematics-like principles, based on the notion of self-interest and utility maximization. This was a major breakthrough in social theory and policy.

But the "rational actor model" has been shown to be systematically violated by real human beings, and behavioral economics arose to ammend the "rational actor model" to fit the reality. It's not that people are irrational, but rather the concept of rationality used in the traditional theory is seriously wanting. If you're interested in this larger backdrop to the present book, there is a marvelous new book on the subject edited by its creators, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, called "Choices, Values, and Frames."

The introductory chapters of Behavioral Law and Economics are refreshingly clear and free of jargon. These are followed by some of the most important articles that have been written on the topic over the past several years.

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This practical resource includes perspectives from the point of view of both plaintiff and defendant for cases involving questions of race, gender, disability, and age. In addition, it offers an overview of the process by which complaints are filed, the statutes under which they are filed, and the authority represented by various case law. Employment Discrimination Litigation will illuminate myriad issues such as Daubert motions, class certification issues, the setting of cut scores that will withstand challenge, common statistical analyses of adverse impact, and merit-based issues. Employment Discrimination Litigation also

Presents a temporal description of a typical employment discrimination case from start to finish
Outlines the major guidelines that are often invoked in employment litigation—the A.P.A. Standards, Uniform Guidelines, and SIOP Principles
Reviews litigation related to the Fair Labor Standards Act
References written judicial opinions that relate the activities and devices most often employed by industrial and organizational psychologists

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Presents a temporal description of a typical employment discrimination case from start to finish
Outlines the major guidelines that are often invoked in employment litigation—the A.P.A. Standards, Uniform Guidelines, and SIOP Principles
Reviews litigation related to the Fair Labor Standards Act
References written judicial opinions that relate the activities and devices most often employed by industrial and organizational psychologists

Behavioral Simulation Methods in Tax Policy Analysis (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report)

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These thirteen papers and accompanying commentaries are the first fruits of an ongoing research project that has concentrated on developing simulation models that incorporate the behavioral responses of individuals and businesses to alternative tax rules and rates and on expanding computational general equilibrium models that analyze the long-run effects of changes on the economy as a whole.

The principal focus of the project has been on the microsimulation of individual behavior. Thus, this volume includes studies of individual responses to an over reduction in tax rates and to changes in the highest tax rates; a study of alternative tax treatments of the family; and studies of such specific aspects of household behavior as tax treatment of home ownership, charitable contributions, and individual saving behavior. Microsimulation techniques are also used to estimate the effects of alternative policies on the long-run financial status of the social security program and to examine the effects of alternative tax rules on corporate investment and of foreign-source income on overseas investment.

The papers devoted to the development of general equilibrium simulation models to include an examination of the implications of international trade and capital flows, a study of the effects of capital taxation that uses a closed economy equilibrium model, and an examination of the effect of switching to an inflation-indexed tax system. In the volume's final paper, a life-cycle model in which individuals maximize lifetime utility subject to a lifetime budget constraint is used to simulate the effects of tax rules on personal savings.

Law and Economics: Cases, Materials and Behavioral Perspectives (American Casebook Series)

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Law and Economics: Cases, Materials and Behavioral Perspectives (American Casebook Series)
Jeffrey L. Harrison
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Law and Economics: Positive, Normative and Behavioral Perspectives (American Casebook Series)

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Law and Economics: Positive, Normative and Behavioral Perspectives (American Casebook Series)
Jeffrey L. Harrison
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This textbook presents a broad examination of law and economics, including the questions of economic justice raised by the application of economics to law. It explores both conventional analysis and examines how that analysis may be affected by behavioral findings. A primary focus is on how economic analysis holds up in markets that are often defined by rights, perceived duties, and obligations. Chapters include the tools of analysis, behavioral economics, the Coase Theorem, contract law, tort law, criminal law, government regulation, antitrust, and intellectual property.

Behavioral Approaches to Law and Economics. (National Bureau of Economic Research conference): An article from: NBER Reporter

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This digital document is an article from NBER Reporter, published by National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. on December 22, 1997. The length of the article is 1072 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Research findings on the relevance of psychological issues to law and economics were discussed by speakers at the National Bureau of Economic Research's Conference on Behavioral Approaches to Law and Economics at Cambridge University on November 14, 1997. Emphasizing the role of human behavior can benefit the process of analyzing legal and economic topics according to researchers Christine Jolls, Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler. Furthermore, Russell Korobkin of the University of Illinois studied the role of bias on defaulted cases.

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Title: Behavioral Approaches to Law and Economics. (National Bureau of Economic Research conference)
Publication: NBER Reporter (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 1997
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
Page: p18(2)

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Behavioral feedback effects and the revenue-estimating process.(A New Agenda - Old Constraints): An article from: National Tax Journal

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Behavioral feedback effects and the revenue-estimating process.(A New Agenda - Old Constraints): An article from: National Tax Journal
Jane G. Gravelle
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This digital document is an article from National Tax Journal, published by National Tax Association on September 1, 1995. The length of the article is 8543 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The value of incorporating feedback and behavioral effects into revenue estimates made for tax policy and regulatory changes is limited because the much of the research on these effects is inconclusive. The lack of definitive economic answers can make such methods susceptible to political manipulation. Dynamic estimates that factor in behavioral microeconomic and macroeconomic effects in the short and long run have been advocated by critics of static revenue-estimating.

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Title: Behavioral feedback effects and the revenue-estimating process.(A New Agenda - Old Constraints)
Author: Jane G. Gravelle
Publication: National Tax Journal (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1995
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Volume: 48 Issue: n3 Page: 463-477

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Behavioral Law and Economics [A book review from: Journal of Socio-Economics]

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Behavioral Law and Economics [A book review from: Journal of Socio-Economics]
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Socio-Economics, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The behavioral response of wealth accumulation to estate taxation: time series evidence.: An article from: National Tax Journal

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This digital document is an article from National Tax Journal, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2006. The length of the article is 7610 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: This paper explores the behavioral response of taxable bequests to estate taxation. To gauge its effects, the estate tax is converted to an equivalent income tax. This highlights the importance of expected rates of return, and also makes it possible to compare effective tax rates on saving over time. Using data on federal revenues from the estate tax over the past 50 years, and employing the equivalent income tax rate measure, the findings suggest that estate taxes have a dampening effect on the reported size of taxable estates. Estate taxation seems to depress taxable bequests by almost ten percent.

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Title: The behavioral response of wealth accumulation to estate taxation: time series evidence.
Author: David Joulfaian
Publication: National Tax Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2006
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Volume: 59 Issue: 2 Page: 253(16)

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The United States labor force is examined in detail in this comprehensive study. The history and current makeup of the workforce is revealed and issues and trends are investigated. Theory and analysis are blended with demographics to provide the reader with a solid overview of the current state of the American worker and his or her environment. Competing views are offered on diverse issues such as unions, welfare, and health care. Where helpful, economic and labor theory is explained and applied to give the book scholarly rigor along with readability and practical information. The viewpoint remains focused on a broad view of manpower. As such, emphasis is not on theoretical analysis but on description, historical trends, statistics on present conditions, and explanations. The book begins with a discussion of the development of the workforce, the impact of immigration, the rise of nontraditional work arrangements, the underground economy, and demographics. Basic vocabulary and concepts are presented and explained to give the reader the tools necessary to analyze the topics presented in the latter parts of the book. Education is examined in part two. Competing views on the U.S. educational system and the value of education in an economic sense are discussed as are the choices open to non-college graduates. Career choices, unions, wage determination, and women and minority issues are considered in later chapters. Aspects of unemployment are explored in part seven. The book concludes with a look at the government's role in the workforce, including welfare, social insurance, and health care and shows how these programs impact both employer and worker behavior. This book is a great resource for executives, human resource professionals, researchers, policy makers, and students.

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The 18 chapters making up In Vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants are divided into two sections. Section 1 (eight chapters) covers historical and fundamental aspects of haploidy in crop improvement. Section 2 deals with methods of haploid production, including anther culture, micropore culture, ovary culture, pollination with irradiated pollen, in vitro pollination, and special culture techniques, including polyhaploid production in the Triticeae by sexual hybridization, the influence of ethylene and gelling agents on anther culture, conditional lethal markers, and methods of chromosome doubling.

In vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants: Volume 2: Applications (Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture)

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In vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants: Volume 2: Applications (Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture)

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This second volume of In Vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants is broadly concerned with special applications and phenomena uniquely associated with haploid plants and their derivation. The first section (18 chapters) covers such topics as genetic stability of microspore-derived doubled haploids, transformation of pollen and microspores, gametoclonal variation, bread-making quality of wheat doubled haploids, DNA amplification of doubled haploids, RFLP mapping with haploids, genetics of green plant regeneration from anther culture, combining mutation breeding with haploidy for the improvement of rapeseed, segregation distortion among anther-derived plants, chromosome engineering, self-incompatibility and pollen rejection, statistical models for the detection of quantitative trait loci, haploid protoplasts, gametosomatic hybrids, potential of using dihaploid/diploid genotypes in breeding potato by somatic hybridization, cryopreservation, prospects of microspore-derived embryos for artificial seeds and the future prospects for crop improvement through anther and microspore culture. Section 2 (3 chapters) is concerned with genetic transformation of wheat and Petunia via pollen, and rice through microspore-derived protoplasts.

In vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants: Volume 3: Important Selected Plants (Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture)

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This third volume on In Vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants consists of 20 chapters. Each chapter contains some introductory material on the selected plant, the techniques used most successfully for haploid production (anther culture, microspore culture, and ovary culture), the factors that influence the success of these techniques, the identification and genetic characterization of haploid regenerants, the applications of haploids in breeding, and a brief conclusion on the potential of haploid breeding for the crop. The plants covered include vegetable crops ( Allium spp., Capsicum, Chicorium, Cucumis, Solanum melongena, Solanum tuberosum); fruit crops ( Malus, Fragaria, Vitis); and other miscellaneous crops ( Beta, Coffea, Ginkgo, Glycine, Medicago, Saccarum, Sinocalamus latiflora, forest trees). Some chapters also cover protoplast manipulation and genetic transformation.

In vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants: Volume 4: Cereals (Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture)

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In vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants: Volume 4: Cereals (Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture)

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This fourth volume on In Vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants comprises 11 chapters on cereal haploid production. All chapters are crop specific and each chapter contains an introduction about the selected plant, the techniques (anther culture, microspore culture, ovary/ovule culture) that have been successfully used for haploid production, the factors that have influenced the success of these techniques, the identification and genetic characterization of haploid regenerants, the application of haploids in breeding, and a brief conclusion on the potential of haploid breeding in the specific crop. The chapters contained review haploidy in cereal crops including rice ( Oryza sativa), maize ( Zea mays), wheat ( Triticum aestivum), barley ( Hordeum vulgare), triticale, ryegrass ( Lolium spp.), sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor), buckwheat ( Fagopyrum esculentum), pearl millet ( Pennisetum glaucum), rye ( Secale cereale) and oat ( Avena sativa). Some chapters also include a discussion of the potential of protoplast manipulations and genetic transformation of the particular crop under discussion.

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Acram, Ph.D. Taji , Prakash P. Kumar , and Prakash Lakshmanan
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This publication contains the results of an FAO/IAEA Co-ordinated Research Project (CRP) on Radiation Induced Mutations and Other Advanced Technologies for the Production of Crop Mutants Suitable for Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture. Induced mutation techniques and other biotechnological approaches are major tools for creating variability and selection of stress-resistant or tolerant genotypes. Additionally, scientists have become intensely interested in mutations as a means to widen and deepen our understanding of genome structure and gene function.

In vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants: Volume 5: Oil, Ornamental and Miscellaneous Plants (Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture)

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This fifth and final volume on In Vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants comprises 13 chapters and is divided into three sections. Most chapters are crop specific and each chapter contains an introduction about the selected plant, the techniques (anther culture, microspore culture, ovary/ovule culture) that have been successfully used for haploid production, the factors that have influenced the success of these techniques, the identification and genetic characterization of haploid regenerants, the application of haploids in breeding, and a brief conclusion on the potential of haploid breeding in the specific crop. The chapters contained in Section 1 focus on selected oil crops, including linseed ( Linum usitatissimum), sunflower ( Helianthus annuus) and niger ( Guizotia abyssinica). Section 2 deals with ornamental plants including ( Petunia, lily ( Lilium spp.), tulip ( Tulipa spp.), and Camellia japonica). The final Section 3 comprises miscellaneous plants including various fruit, vegetable, or specialty crops (asparagus ( Asparagus officinalis), tobacco ( Nicotiana spp.), cotton ( Gossypium spp.), gynogenic haploids in angiosperms, Citrus, tomato ( Lycopersicon esculentum), and interspecific somatic hybrids of potato ( Solanum brevidens and S. tuberosum)). Some chapters also include a discussion of the potential of protoplast manipulations and genetic transformation of the particular crop under discussion.

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When dust and gases in space are strongly attracted by a powerful gravitational object, such as a black hole or neutron star, they spiral in and are gobbled up by the object. The intense frictional heating of these "accretion disks" sends out electromagnetic radiation, enabling scientists to detect them. These electromagnetic "signatures" have much to teach us about the physics of the accreting object.

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