Open AccessBook Review: Real-World Decision Making: an Encyclopedia of Behavioral Economics
Author(s) -
Stacey Marien
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
reference and user services quarterly/reference and user services quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5242
pISSN - 1094-9054
DOI - 10.5860/rusq.55n4.325b
Subject(s) - behavioral economics , economics , inefficiency , encyclopedia , wage , schools of economic thought , business economics , positive economics , sociology , economic history , neoclassical economics , microeconomics , political science , labour economics , law
Altman is the Dean and Head of School of the Newcastle Business School, University of Newcastle in Callaghan, Australia. His areas of research include behavioral economics, x-inefficiency theory, institutional change, economics of cooperatives, economic history, methodology, and empirical macroeconomics. He has previously edited the Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics (Routledge, 2006) and authored Behavioral Economics for Dummies (Wiley, 2012) and Economic Growth and the High Wage Economy (Routledge, 2012).