Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- List of Contributors -- Chapter one. Introduction / Diamond, Peter / Vartiainen, Hannu -- Chapter two. Behavioral Public Economics:Welfare and Policy Analysis with Nonstandard Decision-Makers / Bernheim, B. Douglas / Rangel, Antonio -- Chapter three....

We develop a model in which an overconfident agent learns about groups in society from observations of his and others' successes. In our model, both the agent's information and his beliefs are multi-dimensional, allowing us to study interactions between different views. Overall, society always...