BIBFRAME Work

Title

Policy and choice

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Congdon, William J. (author )
• Kling, Jeffrey R. (ctb)
• Mullainathan, Sendhil (ctb)

Subject

• Economics--Psychological aspects (LC)
• Human behavior--Economic aspects
• Finance, Public--Psychological aspects
• Finance, Public--Decision making

Language

• English

Classification

• ClassificationLcc: HJ141
• ClassificationDdc: 336

Supplementary content

• http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/msupplcont/bibliography
• http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/msupplcont/index

Content

• text

Summary

"Applies the psychological insights of behavioral economics to economic concepts such as moral hazard, deadweight loss, and incidence. Explores how deviations from the standard economic model of decisionmaking--imperfect optimization, bounded self-control, and nonstandard preferences--might affect public finance policy regarding externalities, information asymmetries, poverty, and taxes"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

The promise -- Psychology and the foundations of public finance -- Psychology and economics -- Behavioral economics and public finance -- Behavioral economics and public finance in practice -- Asymmetric information -- Externalities and public goods -- Poverty and inequality -- Taxation and revenue.

Authorized Access Point

Congdon, William J. Policy and choice

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-07-07T22:43:28.888807+00:00
• Agent: bcld
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23975929

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-07-07
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: bibframe-2-6-0
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc