Introduction Chapter from The Law of Good People: Challenging States’ Ability to Regulate Human Behavior Contents

Limited cognition, limited self-interest, and behavioral ethics........................................3 The contribution of economics to development of the behavioral analysis of law .........7 Demonstration Through the “Self-Serving Bias” ............................................................8 Why Behavioral Ethics was neglected in Law ................................................................9 The Gist of the Book ......................................................................................................10 The challenge to legal enforcement posed by behavioral ethics ....................................13 Toward a broader perspective of the regulation of good people ...................................14 Behavioral ethics and the instrument-choice literature ..................................................16 Limitations in the current behavioral ethics literature ...................................................18 Structure of the book ......................................................................................................22 Brief outline of the chapters .............................................................................................. 23 Chapter 2. The potential of Behavioral ethics for legal research and policy. ................23 Chapter 4. Non-formal enforcement revisited ...............................................................27 Chapter 5: The role of Social Norms in legal compliance ........................................ 28 Chapter 6. Variation among people in obeying the law .................................................29 Chapter 7. Theoretical limitations and the need for a pluralistic account of the possible effects of law on behavior ..............................................................................................30 Chapter 7 and 8 The pluralistic effect of law and enforcement dilemmas ....................30 Chapter 9. The corruption of good people .....................................................................31 Chapter 10. Managing discrimination by good people at the workplace and beyond ...34 Chapter 11Conclusion ....................................................................................................36