| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910254867903321 |
|
|
Autore |
Ikeda Shinsuke |
|
|
Titolo |
The economics of self-destructive choices / / by Shinsuke Ikeda |
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Tokyo : , : Springer Japan : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
978-4-431-55793-7 |
4-431-55792-X |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[1st ed. 2016.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (XV, 191 p. 45 illus., 8 illus. in color.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
Advances in Japanese Business and Economics, , 2197-8859 ; ; 10 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Economics |
Management science |
Economics, general |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
1 The Paradox of Self-Destructive Choices -- 2 Varying Impatience -- 3 Hyperbolic discounting and Self-Destructive Behaviors -- 4 Self-Control Problems Of The Dual Self -- 5 Overborrowing, Overeating and Addictive Behavior -- 6 Coping with Self-Destructive Behavior. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Based on recent advances in economics, especially those in behavioral economics, this book elucidates theoretically and empirically the mechanism of time-inconsistent decision making that leads to various forms of self-destructive behavior. The topics include over-eating and obesity, over-spending, over-borrowing, under-saving, procrastination, smoking, gambling, over-drinking, and other intemperate behaviors, all of which relate to serious social problems in advanced countries. In this book, the author attempts to construct a bridge between the basic theory of time discounting, especially as of hyperbolic discounting, and empirically observed “irrational (non-classical)” behavior in the various contexts just mentioned. The empirical validity of the theory is discussed using unique micro data a s well as public macro data. The book proposes prescriptions for individual decision makers, whether sophisticated or naïve, to make better choices in self-control problems, and also provides policy makers with useful advice for influencing people’s decision making in the right directions. This work is recommended not only to general |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
readers who seek to learn how to attain better self-regulation under self-control problems. It also helps researchers who seek an overview of positive and normative implications of hyperbolic discounting, and thereby reconstruct economic theory for a better understanding of actual human behavior and the resulting economic dynamics . Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE tion Locked="false" Priority="32" SemiHidden="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Reference"/>. |
|
|
|
|
|
| |