From the Sunday NY Times Magazine, an article about how badly we
predict our future happiness, which is part of the issue of behavioral
economics and how poorly we resemble the rational homo economicus.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/magazine/07HAPPINESS.htmlDaniel T Gilbert has a lab web page which leads to a publication list
with links to papers,
http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dtg/gilbert.htm.
George Loewenstein's web page includes an article for the Routledge
Social Science Encyclopedia on "Behavioral Economics" and a few other
downloads,
http://sds.hss.cmu.edu/faculty/loewenstein.html.
Tim Wilson,
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~tdw/, has a review paper on
"Self-Knowledge: Its Limits, Value, and Potential for Improvement".
Daniel Kahneman, the nobelist (Economics 2002) of this episode, has no
web page worth mentioning.
All of which reminds me of an article from PNAS: "On the impossibility
of predicting the behavior of rational agents"
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/98/22/12848 which somehow doesn't
seem so pertinent anymore.
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