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Contributors xi
Series Introduction xiii
Volume Introduction xv
PART I. SETTING THE STAGE
1. The Case for Mindless Economics—Faruk Gul and
Wolfgang Pesendorfer
3
PART II. THE DEBATE
2. The Case for Mindful Economics—Colin Camerer 43
3. What’s So Informative about Choice?—Andrew Schotter 70
4. On Two Points of View Regarding Revealed Preference and
Behavioral Economics—Ran Spiegler
95
5. Some Thoughts on the Principle of Revealed Preference—Ariel
Rubinstein and Yuval Salant
116
6. Mindless or Mindful Economics: A Methodological
Evaluation—Daniel Hausman
125
PART III. NEW DIRECTIONS FOR
NORMATIVE ECONOMICS
7. Choice-Theoretic Foundations for BehavioralWelfare
Economics—B. Douglas Bernheim and Antonio Rangel
155
8. Revealed Mistakes and Revealed Preferences—Botond Köszegi
and Matthew Rabin
193
9. The Economist as Therapist:Methodological Ramifications of
“Light” Paternalism—George Loewenstein and Emily Haisley
210
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PART IV. NEW DIRECTIONS FOR
POSITIVE ECONOMICS
10. Look-ups as theWindows of the Strategic Soul—Vincent P.
Crawford
249
11. Revealed Preference and Bounded Rationality—Douglas Gale 281
12. The Seven Properties of Good Models—Xavier Gabaix and David
Laibson
292
13. Researcher Incentives and Empirical Methods—Edward L.
Glaeser
300
14. Choice and Process: Theory Ahead of Measurement—Jess
Benhabib and Alberto Bisin
320
15. Economic Theory and Psychological Data: Bridging
the Divide—Andrew Caplin
336
Index 373