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This seventh volume of The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis covers a range of topics in behavioral economics Authoritative, cutting edge, and accessible, this volume covers the topics of emotions, behavioral welfare economics, and neuroeconomics.

The foundations of behavioral economic analysis was originally published as a single volume in 2016. In the new 7-volume issue the author has "done many of the same things we might have done in bringing out a second edition", including correcting errors and improving clarity of text. Each volume has the new preface and introduction and reprints the original preface

1.2 The elements of classical decision theory1.2.1 Preference foundations of expected utility theory (EU); 1.2.2 Attitudes to risk under EU; 1.3 Subjective expected utility theory (SEU); 1.4 Eliciting the utility function under EU; 1.4.1 The case of known probabilities; 1.4.2 The case of unknown probabilities; 1.5 Violations of expected utility theory; 1.5.1 Violations of the independence axiom; 1.5.2 The probability triangle and violations of the axioms of rationality; 1.5.3 Some attempts to relax the independence axiom; 1.5.4 Attitudes to risk for small and large stakes: Rabin's paradox

1.3 Gift exchange and trust games1.3.1 The gift exchange game; 1.3.2 The trust game, trust, and trustworthiness; 1.4 Public goods games; 1.4.1 Public goods game without punishments; 1.4.2 Public goods game with punishments; 1.4.3 Empirical evidence on public goods games; 1.4.4 Heterogenous preferences and the pattern of contributions; 1.4.5 Unproductive expenditures on public goods; 1.4.6 Antisocial punishments; 1.4.7 Evolution and reciprocity; 1.5 How representative is the lab evidence?; 1.5.1 The student subject pool and experimental scrutiny

Volume 1.Behavioral economics of risk, uncertainty, and ambiguity --Volume 2.Other-regarding preferences --Volume 3.Behavioral time discounting --Volume 4.Behavioral game theory.Volume 5.Bounded rationality --Volume 6.Behavioral models of learning --Volume 7.Further topics in behavioral economics that include emotions, behavioral welfare economics, and neuroeconomics.