Behavioural Economics Reading List

Thanks for iterations so far everyone. One more iteration. No harm in giving this one more bash. 

Ainslie, G. (2001). Breakdown of Will. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Akerlof, G. A. and Kranton, R.E. (2010). Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Akerlof, G.A. & Shiller, R.J. (2009). Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why it Matters for Global Capitalism. Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press.

Ariely, D. (2008). Predictably Irrational: the Hidden Forces that Shape our Decisions. London: HarperCollins Pub. (Details much of Ariely’s experimental work.)

Bardsley, N., Cubitt, R., Loomes, G., Moffatt, P., Starmer, C., and Sugden, R. (2009). Experimental Economics: Rethinking the Rules. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Binmore, K. (2009). Rational Decisions. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press.

Brafman, O., & Brafman, R. (2008) Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behaviour. New York: Doubleday.

Camerer, C.F., Loewenstein, G., and Rabin, M. (2004). Advances in Behavioral Economics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Still the best for me in the relatively recent field)

Camerer, C. F. (2003). Behavioral GameTheory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Diamond, P. and Vartiainen, H. (Eds). (2007). Behavioral Economics and its Applications. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Elster, J. (2007). Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Elster, J. (1985). Ulysses and the Sirens: Studies in Rationality and Irrationality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Forbes, W. (2009). Behavioural Finance. Chichester: John Wiley. (This is a real cracker of a text-book)

Frey, B., & Stutzer, A. (2007). Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

Friedman, D. (2008). Morals and Markets: an Evolutionary Account of the Modern World. Palgrave Macmillan, New York.

Gilovich, T., Griffin, D., and Kahneman, D (Eds.) (2002). Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Gintis, H., Bowles, S., Boyd, R., and Fehr, E. (2005). Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: the Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life. Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press.

Gintis, H. (2009). The Bounds of Reason: Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Guala, F. (2005). The Methodology of Experimental Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kagel, J., and Roth, A. (1995). The Handbook of Experimental Economics. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Kahneman, D., Slovic, P., & Tversky, A. (Eds). (1982). Judgement Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (A classic)

Kahneman, D and Tversky, A. (Eds). (2000). Choices, Values, and Frames. Cambridge University Press and Russell Sage Foundation.

Lichtenstein, S. and Slovic, P. (2006). The Construction of Preference. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Loewenstein, G. (2007). Exotic Preferences: Behavioral Economics and Human Motivation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lunn, P. (2008). Basic Instincts: Human Nature and the New Economics. London: Marshall Cavendish.

Montier, J. (2002). Behavioural Finance: Insights into Irrational Minds and Markets. Chichester: John Wiley.

Newall, A. and Simon, H. (1972). Human Problem Solving. Englewood Cliffs; Hemel Hempstead: Prentice-Hall.

Shiller, R. (2000). Irrational Exuberence. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Thaler, R.H., and Sunstein, C.R. (2008). Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press.

Thaler, R.H. (1991). Quasi Rational Economics. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Wilkinson, N. (2007). An Introduction to Behaviorial Economics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Zak, P. (2008). Moral Markets : the Critical Role of Values in the Economy. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press.