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Experts in law, psychology, and economics explore the power of "fast and frugal" heuristics in the creation and implementation of law
In recent decades, the economists' concept of rational choice has dominated legal reasoning. And yet, in practical terms, neither the lawbreakers the law addresses nor officers of the law behave as the hyperrational beings postulated by rational choice. Critics of rational choice and believers in "fast and frugal heuristics" propose...
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Gerd Gigerenzer is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. He is the author of Calculated Risks, among other books, and the coeditor of Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox and Heuristics and the Law, both published by the MIT Press.
Christoph Engel is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, and a member of the Faculty of Law and Economics at...
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- PublisherThe MIT Press
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0262072750
- ISBN 13 9780262072755
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages480
- EditorGigerenzer Gerd, Engel Christoph
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