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Books, articles, and essays for further reading
- Social Security: History and Politics from the New Deal to the Privatization Debate — Beland, Daniel.
- Risk Aversion or Myopia? Choices in Repeated Gambles and Retirement Investments — Benartzi, Shlomo, and Richard H. Thaler
- Lottery Winners and Accident Victims: Is Happiness Relative? — Brickman, Philip, Dan Coates, and Ronnie J. Janoff-Bulman.
- Saving the Planet: How to Shape an Environmentally Sustainable Global Economy. — Brown, Lester R., Christopher Flavin, and Sandra Postrel.
- Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction — Camerer, Colin F.
- Dual Process Theories in Social Psychology. — Chaiken, S., and Y. Trope.
- The Theory and Practice of Autonomy. — Dworkin, Gerald.
- Order Without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes. — Ellickson, Robert C.
- Risk, Ambiguity, and the Savage Axioms. — Ellsberg, Daniel.
- Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality. — Elster, Jon.
- The Autonomy Myth: A Theory of Dependency. — Fineman, Martha A.
- Choosing the Right Pond. — Frank, Robert.
- How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life. — Gilovich, Thomas.
- Heurisitics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment. — Gilovich, Thomas, Dale Griffin, and Daniel Kahneman.
- Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox — Gerd Gigerenzer and Reinhard Selten
- Happy Slaves: A Critique of the Consent Theory. — Herzog, Don.
- Choices, Values, and Frames. — Kahneman, Daniel, and Amos Tversky
- What Makes a Terrorist. — Krueger, Alan B.
- Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification. — Kuran, Timur.
- Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor’s Story of Life and Death in the People’s Temple. — Layton, Deborah.
- The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life. — Ledoux, Joseph.
- Obedience to Authority. — Milgram, Stanley.
- Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming. — Nordhaus, William D., and Joseph Boyer.
- The Design of Everyday Things. — Norman, Donald.
- Justice, Gender, and the Family. — Okin, Susan Moller.
- Comprehensive Emergency Management: Evacuating Threatened Populations. — Perry, Ronald W.
- The Person and the Situation. — Ross, Lee, and Richard Nisbett.
- Negativity Bias, Negativity Dominance, and Contagion. — Rozin, Paul, and Edward B. Royzman.
- Cognition and Communication: Judgmental Biases, Research Methods, and the Logic of Conversation — Schwarz, Norbert.
- Mind Sights: Original Visual Illusions, Ambiguities, and Other Anomalies, with a Commentary on the Play of Mind in Perception and Art. — Shepard, Roger.
- Understanding Terror Networks. — Sageman, Marc.
- Irrational Exuberance. — Shiller, Robert J.
- Where the Sidewalk Ends. — Silverstein, Shel.
- Risk and Reason: Safety, Law, and the Environment. — Sunstein, Cass R.
- Why Societies Need Dissent. — Sunstein, Cass R.
- The Winner’s Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life. — Thaler, Richard H.
- Political Ethics and Public Office. — Thompson, Dennis F.
- The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology — Vicente, Kim J.
- The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation. — Westen, Drew.