Bounded Rationality and Politics

In Bounded Rationality and Politics, Jonathan Bendor considers two schools of behavioral economics. The first is guided by Tversky and Kahneman's work on heuristics and biases, which focuses on the mistakes people make in judgment and choice. The second is described by Gerd Gigerenzer's program on fast and frugal heuristics, which emphasizes the effectiveness of simple rules of thumb. Finding each of these radically incomplete, Bendor provides an illuminating analysis of Herbert Simon's pat...