Kanbur, Ravi; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tuomala, Matti - 2004
Research in behavioral economics has uncovered the widespread phenomenon of people making decisions against their own … interventions, through taxes and subsidies, might be called "behavioral public economics". However, such analysis, where the … government has an objective function that is different from that of individuals, is not new in public economics. In these cases …