Nudged into Lockdown?

Nudged into Lockdown?
Author: Chaudhuri, Ananish
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2022-02-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1802205675

Utilizing extensive research in economics, psychology, political science, neuroscience and evolutionary theory, Ananish Chaudhuri provides a critical perspective on the role of cognitive biases in decision-making during the Covid-19 pandemic. The extensive use of, and support for, stringent social distancing measures in particular is explored in depth.

Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics

Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics
Author: Joan Costa-Font
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2024-05-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 100943845X

Behavioural economics and behavioural public policy have been fundamental parts of governmental responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. This was not only the case at the beginning of the pandemic as governments pondered how to get people to follow restrictions, but also during delivery of the vaccination programme. Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics brings together a world-class line-up of experts to examine the successes and failures of behavioural economics and policy in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic. It documents how people changed their behaviours and use of health care and discusses what we can learn in terms of addressing future pandemics. Featuring high-profile behavioural economists such as George Loewenstein, this book uniquely uncovers behavioural regularities that emerge in the different waves of COVID-19 and documents how pandemics change our lives.

Behavioral Economics and Public Health

Behavioral Economics and Public Health
Author: Christina A. Roberto
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2016
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 019939833X

Behavioral economics has potential to offer novel solutions to some of today's most pressing public health problems: How do we persuade people to eat healthy and lose weight? How can health professionals communicate health risks in a way that is heeded? How can food labeling be modified to inform healthy food choices? Behavioral Economics and Public Health is the first book to apply the groundbreaking insights of behavioral economics to the persisting problems of health behaviors and behavior change. In addition to providing a primer on the behavioral economics principles that are most relevant to public health, this book offers details on how these principles can be employed to mitigating the world's greatest health threats, including obesity, smoking, risky sexual behavior, and excessive drinking. With contributions from an international team of scholars from psychology, economics, marketing, public health, and medicine, this book is a trailblazing new approach to the most difficult and important problems of our time.

An Economic Theory of Greed, Love, Groups, and Networks

An Economic Theory of Greed, Love, Groups, and Networks
Author: Paul Frijters
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2013-03-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107355168

Why are people loyal? How do groups form and how do they create incentives for their members to abide by group norms? Until now, economics has only been able to partially answer these questions. In this groundbreaking work, Paul Frijters presents a new unified theory of human behaviour. To do so, he incorporates comprehensive yet tractable definitions of love and power, and the dynamics of groups and networks, into the traditional mainstream economic view. The result is an enhanced view of human societies that nevertheless retains the pursuit of self-interest at its core. This book provides a digestible but comprehensive theory of our socioeconomic system, which condenses its immense complexity into simplified representations. The result both illuminates humanity's history and suggests ways forward for policies today, in areas as diverse as poverty reduction and tax compliance.

Economic Policy for a Pandemic Age

Economic Policy for a Pandemic Age
Author: Monica de Bolle
Publisher: Peterson Institute for International Economics
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2021-04-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0881327425

The global health and economic threats from the COVID-19 pandemic are not yet behind us. While the development of multiple safe and highly effective vaccines in less than a year is cause for hope, several significant dangers to recovery of global health and income are still clear and present: New concerning variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, continue to emerge at an alarming rate in different parts of the world; at the same time, vaccine rollouts have been shockingly inefficient even in some rich countries, while much of the developing world waits in line behind them for vaccines to arrive. The Briefing covers several policy areas in which cooperative forward-looking policy action will materially improve our chances of truly escaping today's pandemic and making future pandemics less costly.

Human Behaviour in Pandemics

Human Behaviour in Pandemics
Author: Malgorzata Kossowska
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2022
Genre: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
ISBN: 9781032183527

Individual perspective -- Group perspective -- Societal level -- Communication in times of pandemic -- Summary -- The COVID-19 epidemic in Poland, as of summer 2021 -- Pandemic and cultural differences : examples from Islam and Hinduism -- Public policy responses to the pandemic : a comparative perspective.

Eating Behavior and Obesity

Eating Behavior and Obesity
Author: Shahram Heshmat
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2011-06-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0826106218

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Pandemic Economics

Pandemic Economics
Author: Thomas R. Sadler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2021-07-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000411354

Pandemic Economics applies economic theory to the Covid-19 era, exploring the micro and macro dimensions of the pre-pandemic, pandemic, and post-pandemic phases. Using core economic tools such as marginal analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and opportunity cost, this book explores the breadth of economic outcomes from the pandemic. It shows that a tradeoff between public health and economic health led to widespread problems, including virus infections and unemployment. Taking an international and comparative approach, the book shows that because countries implemented different economic policies, interventions, and timelines during the crisis, outcomes varied with respect to the extent of recession, process of recovery, availability of medical equipment, public health, and additional waves of the virus. Pedagogical features are weaved throughout the text, including country case studies, key terms, suggested further reading, and discussion questions for solo or group study. On top of this, the book offers online supplements comprising PowerPoint slides, test questions, extra case studies, and an instructor guide. This textbook will be a valuable resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses on pandemic economics, macroeconomics, health economics, public policy, and related areas.

The COVID-19 Pandemic, India and the World

The COVID-19 Pandemic, India and the World
Author: Rajib Bhattacharyya
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000463044

1) This is a comprehensive book on the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the Indian economy. 2) It discusses various socio-economic issues related to economic policies, labour, environment, and education. 3) Timely, and written by experts, this book will be of interest to departments of South Asian studies and political economy across UK.

Delusion and Self-Deception

Delusion and Self-Deception
Author: Tim Bayne
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2010-10-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1136874879

This volume is an interdisciplinary examination of the relationship between delusions and self-deception, bringing recent work on motivated reasoning to bear on the problems posed by these forms of pathological belief. The volume will appeal to cognitive scientists, clinicians and philosophers interested in the nature of belief and the disturbances to which it is subject.