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    Behavioral Economics and the Public Sector

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    This thesis consists of four essays dealing with topics that are relevant for the public sector. The essays cover diverse issues of economics partly overlapping with political science. The topics reach from the taxation of labor over monetary policy to preferences over voting institutions. Throughout this thesis it is, in contrast to classical economics, not assumed that humans are necessarily fully rational. Once full rationality is no longer assumed, experiments become an important tool to learn about human behavior. Consequently, most of the work in this thesis makes use of economic experiments

    Canadian wheat marketing policy, 1929-1936.

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    It was some 38 years ago that Sir William Crookes, eminent British scientist, in the first edition of his book, ""The Wheat Problem" predicted theinevitability of a long-run increase in the price of wheat. This grim prospect arose, he contended, due to the rapidlY diminishing supply ofavailable wheat land, which, according to him, would soon be inadequate to provide for the world's needs. Within an appreciable distance, hepredicted a scarcity of this vital foodstuff. [...
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