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OverviewChallenging standard economic models, this book shows how farmers tend to use cognitive shortcuts in their decision-making and how their professional pride frequently outweighs profit considerations. This indicates that environmental regulation based on economic incentives may not be as effective as economic theorists and ex ante policy analysts maintain. Rather than assuming that regulations respond to incentive-based policies, this book examines the ways in which they do. Bounded rationality in decision-making has typically been studied in a laboratory setting, but this book uses original empirical research to demonstrate how bounded rationality plays out in the real world, examining the responses of Danish farmers to fertiliser regulation and their decision-making processes. The book will be of interest to a broad range of scholars within the fields of public policy, public administration, political science, behavioural economics and sociology. -- . Full Product DetailsAuthor: Helle Nielsen , Mikael Anderssen , Duncan Liefferink , Bethan HirstPublisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780719079924ISBN 10: 0719079926 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 19 April 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction 2. Theoretical approaches to rational behaviour 3. A positive model of bounded rationality: From theoretical approaches to analytical model 4. Research design 5. The empirical setting - agriculture and environmental regulation 6. Fertiliser application around optimal norms: effect of decision environment 7. Information shortcuts and rules of thumb: How farmers make decisions on fertilisers 8. Optimising or satisficing: when and what 9. Conclusion: Money also matters Appendix: List of features of the farmers interviewed for the qualitative analysis References -- .ReviewsAuthor InformationHelle Nielsen is a Social Scientist in policy analysis at the National Environmental Research Institute, Aarhus University -- . Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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