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Economic Choice Theory: An Experimental Analysis of Animal Behavior »

Authors: John Henry Kagel, Leonard Green (With), Raymond C. Battalio
ISBN-13: 9780521454889, ISBN-10: 0521454883
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: January 1995
Edition: (Non-applicable)

This book describes the authors' research program using laboratory animals to investigate individual choice theory in economics.

	Preface
Ch. 1	Introduction	1
Ch. 2	Commodity-choice behavior I: Some initial tests of the theory	8
Ch. 3	Commodity-choice behavior II: Tests of competing motivational processes and the representative consumer hypothesis	47
Ch. 4	Labor-supply behavior I: Initial tests of the theory with some public policy implications	79
Ch. 5	Labor-supply behavior II: Tests of competing motivational processes and earnings distributions for animal workers	109
Ch. 6	Choices over uncertain outcomes	134
Ch. 7	Intertemporal choice	173
Ch. 8	Summing up	200
	Bibliography	207
	Index	221