1. Introduction -- Part 1. Psychology and the foundations of public finance -- 1. Psychology and economics -- 2. Behavioral economics and public finance -- Part II. Behavioral economics and public finance in practice -- 4. Asymmetric information -- 5. Externalities and public goods -- 6. Poverty and inequality -- 7. Taxation and revenue -- Appendix A -- Appendix B
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"Applies the psychological insights of behavioral economics to economic concepts such as moral hazard, deadweight loss, and incidence. Explores how deviations from the standard economic model of decisionmaking--imperfect optimization, bounded self-control, and nonstandard preferences--might affect public finance policy regarding externalities, information asymmetries, poverty, and taxes"--Provided by publisher