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Mind, society and behavior /
Development economics and policy are due for a redesign. In the past few decades, research from across the natural and social sciences has provided stunning insight into the way people think and make decisions. Whereas the first generation of development policy was based on the assumption that human...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank,
[2014]
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| Colección: | World development report ;
2015. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Development economics and policy are due for a redesign. In the past few decades, research from across the natural and social sciences has provided stunning insight into the way people think and make decisions. Whereas the first generation of development policy was based on the assumption that humans make decisions deliberatively and independently, and on the basis of consistent and self-interested preferences, recent research shows that decision making rarely proceeds this way. People think automatically: when deciding, they usually draw on what comes to mind effortlessly. People also think s. |
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| Notas: | "A World Bank Group flagship report." "This Report was prepared by a team led by Karla Hoff and Varun Gauri and comprising Sheheryar Banuri, Stephen Commins, Allison Demeritt, Anna Fruttero, Alaka Holla, and Ryan Muldoon, with additional contributions from Elisabeth Beasley, Saugato Datta, Anne Fernald, Emanuela Galasso, Kenneth Leonard, Dhushyanth Raju, Stefan Trautmann, Michael Woolcock, and Bilal Zia. Research analysts Scott Abrahams, Hannah Behrendt, Amy Packard Corenswet, Adam Khorakiwala, Nandita Krishnaswamy, Sana Rafiq, Pauline Rouyer, James Walsh, and Nan Zhou completed the team. The work was carried out under the general direction of Kaushik Basu and Indermit Gill."--Acknowledgments |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 215 pages) : illustrations (some colour) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781464803437 1464803439 |