Overview: Elucidates theoretically why people make self-destructive decisions bringing small immediate satisfaction at huge future costs and suggests how to improve decision making.Provides empirically validati.Based on recent advances in economics, especially those in behavioral economics, this book elucidates theoretically and empirically the mechanism of time-inconsistent decision making that leads to various forms of self-destructive behavior. The topics include over-eating and obesity, over-spending, over-borrowing, under-saving, procrastination, smoking, gambling, over-drinking, and othe
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