Chapter 6. Revenge and Retaliation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables and Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Contributors xv
6. Introduction 1
7. I. Irrationality and Bounded Rationality in Law, Psychology, and Economics
8. Chapter 1. Departures from Rational Choice: With and Without Regret 11
9. Chapter 2. Is the Mind Irrational or Ecologically Rational? 37
10. Chapter 3. Lessons from Neuroeconomics for the Law 68
11. Chapter 4. Treating Yourself Instrumentally: Internalization, Rationality, and the Law 95
12. II. The Economics of Irrational Behavior
13. Chapter 5. Addiction, Choice, and Irrationality 109
14. Chapter 6. Revenge and Retaliation 141
15. Chapter 7. What Makes Trade Possible? 169
16. Chapter 8. Satisfaction and Learning: An Experimental Game to Measure Happiness 186
17. Chapter 9. The Market for Laughter 208
18. III. The Jurisprudence of Irrational Behavior: Rethinking Law as a Behavioral Instrument
19. Chapter 10. The Jurisprudence of Craziness 223
20. Chapter 11. On Law Enforcement with Boundedly Rational Actors 268
21. Chapter 12. The Biology of Irrationality: Crime and the Contingency of Deterrence 287
22. Chapter 13. Analyzing Illicit Drug Markets When Dealers Act with Limited Rationality 315
23. Chapter 14. On the Psychology of Punishment 339
24. Chapter 15. Some Well-Aged Wines for the “New Norms” Bottles: Implications of Social Psychology for Law and Economics 358
25. IV. Irrational Behavior and the Design of Law
26. Chapter 16. Human Fallibility and the Forms of Law: The Case of Traffic Safety 395
27. Chapter 17. The Free Radicals of Tort 425
28. Chapter 18. Probability Errors: Some Positive and Normative Implications for Tort and Contract Law 456
29. Chapter 19. Threatening an “Irrational” Breach of Contract 474
30. Chapter 20. Regulating Irrational Exuberance and Anxiety in Securities Markets 501
31. Chapter 21. In Praise of Investor Irrationality 542
32. Index 589