Browsing Law School by Subject "behavioral economics"

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    • Endowment Effects in Chimpanzees 
      Jones, Owen D.; Brosnan, Sarah F.; Lambeth, Susan P.; Mareno, Mary Catherine; Richardson, Amanda S.; Schapiro, Steven (Current Biology, 2007)
      Human behavior is not always consistent with standard rational choice predictions. The much-investigated variety of apparent deviations from rational choice predictions provides a promising arena for the merger of economics ...
    • Law and Behavioral Biology 
      Jones, Owen D.; Goldsmith, Timothy H. (Columbia Law Review, 2005)
      Society uses law to encourage people to behave differently than they would behave in the absence of law. This fundamental purpose makes law highly dependent on sound understandings of the multiple causes of human behavior. ...
    • Law, Biology, and Property: A New Theory of the Endowment Effect 
      Jones, Owen D.; Brosnan, Sarah F. (William & Mary Law Review, 2008)
      Recent work at the intersection of law and behavioral biology has suggested numerous contexts in which legal thinking could benefit by integrating knowledge from behavioral biology. In one of those contexts, behavioral ...
    • Time-Shifted Rationality and the Law of Law's Leverage 
      Jones, Owen D. (Northwestern University Law Review, 2001)
      A flood of recent scholarship explores legal implications of seemingly irrational behaviors by invoking cognitive psychology and notions of bounded rationality. In this article, I argue that advances in behavioral biology ...
    • Time-Shifted Rationality and the Law of Law's Leverage 
      Jones, Owen D. (Northwestern University Law Review, 2001)
      A flood of recent scholarship explores legal implications of seemingly irrational behaviors by invoking cognitive psychology and notions of bounded rationality. In this article, I argue that advances in behavioral biology ...