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050	0	4	_aU264 _b.B443 2019
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245	1	0	_aBehavioral economics and nuclear weapons /edited by Anne I. Harrington and Jeffrey W. Knopf.
260			_aAthens : _bThe University of Georgia Press, _c(c)2019.
300			_a1 online resource.
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490	0		_aStudies in security and international affairs ; _v28
520	0		_a"Recent discoveries in psychology and neuroscience have improved our understanding of why our decision making processes fail to match standard social science assumptions about rationality. As researchers such as Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, and Richard Thaler have shown, people often depart in systematic ways from the predictions of the rational actor model of classic economic thought because of the influence of emotions, cognitive biases, an aversion to loss, and other strong motivations and values. These findings about the limits of rationality have formed the basis of behavioral economics, an approach that has attracted enormous attention in recent years. This collection of essays applies the insights of behavioral economics to the study of nuclear weapons policy. Behavioral economics gives us a more accurate picture of how people think and, as a consequence, of how they make decisions about whether to acquire or use nuclear arms. Such decisions are made in real-world circumstances in which rational calculations about cost and benefit are intertwined with complicated emotions and subject to human limitations. Strategies for pursuing nuclear deterrence and nonproliferation should therefore, argue the contributors, account for these dynamics in a systematic way. The contributors to this collection examine how a behavioral approach might inform our understanding of topics such as deterrence, economic sanctions, the nuclear nonproliferation regime, and U.S. domestic debates about ballistic missile defense. The essays also take note of the limitations of a behavioral approach for dealing with situations in which even a single deviation from the predictions of any model can have dire consequences"-- _cProvided by publisher.
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505	0	0	_aIntroduction: Applying insights from behavioral economics to nuclear decision making / _rJeffrey W. Knopf and Anne I. Harrington -- _tTesting a cognitive theory of deterrence / _rJeffrey D. Berejikian and Florian Justwan -- _tDisabling deterrence and preventing war : decision making at the end of the nuclear chain / _rJanice Gross Stein and Morielle I. Lotan -- _tThe neurobiology of deterrence : lessons for U.S. and Chinese doctrine / _rNicholas Wright -- _tApocalypse now : rational choice before the unthinkable / _rJean-Pierre Dupuy -- _tSanctions, sequences, and statecraft : insights from behavioral economics / _rEtel Solingen -- _tJustice and the nonproliferation regime / _rHarald Müller -- _tConstructing U.S. ballistic missile defense : an information processing account of technology innovation / _rZachary Zwald -- _tHomo atomicus : an actor worth psychologizing? : the problems of applying behavioral economics to nuclear strategy / _rAnne I. Harrington and John Downer.
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650		0	_aNuclear weapons _xEconomic aspects.
650		0	_aEconomics _xPsychological aspects.
650		0	_aNuclear weapons _xGovernment policy.
650		0	_aDeterrence (Strategy)
650		0	_aNuclear nonproliferation.
650		0	_aMilitary policy _xDecision making.
650		0	_aEconomic policy _xDecision making.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aHarrington, Anne _e5
700	1		_aKnopf, Jeffrey W., _e5
700	1		_q(Anne I.),
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2223711&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell