E-raamat: Law, Psychology, and Morality: The Role of Loss Aversion

Eyal Zamir's book is an astonishing accomplishment of scholarship. It will be an indispensable reference in the discussion of psychology, morality and the law. * Daniel Kahneman, Senior Scholar; Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Emeritus; and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Emeritus, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University * An excellent and eye-opening book, packed with insights into law, policy, morality, and psychology. Loss aversion is one of the very few most important findings in the last decades of behavioral science. Zamir has produced the best treatment, by far, of its relevance to law. * Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard University * If a behavioral trait is real and important, chances are the law knew it all along. But without interdisciplinary expertise, the law lacks a language. Doctrine does not establish the links between seemingly remote phenomena that happen to have a common behavioral cause. In his fascinating, thought provoking book, Eyal Zamir demonstrates how many legal institutions react to, exploit or mold the propensity to evaluate outcomes against a reference point, rather than 'objective' values. * Christoph Engel, Max-Planck-Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn * Eyal Zamir masterfully analyzes and explains how the seminal research by Amos Tverksy and Daniel Kahneman on judgment and choice should affect our understanding of the way law has evolved and how legal rules should be rethought. Law, Psychology, and Morality is a must read for anyone who cares about the relationship between how we humans think and act and the type of rules we create to organize our societies. * Russell Korobkin, Richard C. Maxwell Professor of Law, UCLA *