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We make decisions every day. Yet we are sometimes perplexed by these decisions and the decisions of others. To complicate things further, we live in an age where there are more things to choose from than ever before the Internet is transforming our choices and making us more accountable for them: what we choose is recorded, modelled and used to predict our future behaviour.
So are we in a position to make better choices today than we were a decade ago? Certainly there are some who believe so. Psychologists claim we are subject to hidden mental processes that lead us to one thing rather than another; economists offer predictions about what people will buy; and some philosophers claim that our choices echo our evolutionary past.
Are these claims merited? Do they reflect the beginnings of a new science of choice? This book offers a critical overview of these and other claims, showing where they are justified and where they are exaggerated. It will be an essential reference for anyone interested in whether science can help us to understand both the ways people make choices in their everyday lives and how these may be changing.
So are we in a position to make better choices today than we were a decade ago? Certainly there are some who believe so. Psychologists claim we are subject to hidden mental processes that lead us to one thing rather than another; economists offer predictions about what people will buy; and some philosophers claim that our choices echo our evolutionary past.
Are these claims merited? Do they reflect the beginnings of a new science of choice? This book offers a critical overview of these and other claims, showing where they are justified and where they are exaggerated. It will be an essential reference for anyone interested in whether science can help us to understand both the ways people make choices in their everyday lives and how these may be changing.
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Table of Content
AcknowledgementsChapter 1 Choice: a twenty-first century science?
Chapter 2 The origins: choice in economics
Chapter 3 An experimental choice
Chapter 4 Choice in context
Chapter 5 Evolutionary Choice
Chapter 6 Modelling Choice
Chapter 7 A new place of choice: the Internet
Chapter 8 Reasons in action
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Richard Harper is Principal Scientist at Social Shaping Research, CambridgeDave Randall is Senior Professor, University of Siegen, Germany
Wes Sharrock is Professor at Manchester University
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 229 ● ISBN 9780745683881 ● File size 0.7 MB ● Publisher John Wiley & Sons ● Published 2018 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6404436 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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