The Talmud and the Endowment Effect

Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy 2013-02-07

Summary:

The endowment effect is one of the most important aspects of behavioral economics.  It postulates that losing something is worse than gaining something is good.  One can easily see it applied to various aspects of property law: it is worse to lose a piece of property that you think is yours than to gain a [...]

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academia judaism religion literature behavioral economics endowment effect oliver wendell holmes pain and suffering damages talmud

Authors:

Jonathan Zasloff

Date tagged:

02/07/2013, 13:48

Date published:

02/07/2013, 13:26