Sanjit Dhami is a Professor of Economics in the department of Economics at the School of Business, University of Leicester. He did his MA and PhD in Economics from the University of Toronto, Canada and an MPhil from the Delhi School of Economics, India. Before coming to Leicester in 2003, he worked at the University of Essex and Newcastle University for six years. He is also a CESifo network member at LMU, and Fellow of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
Prof. Dhami has authored the following books:
- The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis published by Oxford University Press in 2016. This 1800 page book was then split into 7 volumes, edited and updated to include new material, before being published by Oxford University Press in 2019/20. It is the leading book in its area and endorsed by 3 Nobel Prize winners.
- His new book, joint with Professor Cass R. Sunstein, titled Bounded Rationality: Heuristics Judgement and Public Policy was published by MIT Press in July 2022. It is a research monograph on bounded rationality and economic policy for an interdisciplinary audience that examines open problems, challenges, and the way forward for the social and the behavioural sciences.
- His forthcoming book, approximately 900 pages long, on behavioural economics at the advanced undergraduate level is currently under production at Cambridge University Press, and to be published next year. It is an ambitious project that does not shy away from challenging frontier material. It is comprehensive yet comprehensible to undergraduate students in economics, and hopefully an interdisciplinary audience as well.
Prof. Dhami's research spans most areas in behavioural economics such as decision theory, social preferences, time discounting, game theory, emotions, and bounded rationality. His main interest is in examining the theoretical and empirical foundations in these areas. His work has been published in the leading journals in economics such as Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, European Economic Review, Journal of Mathematical Psychology, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Literature, Oxford Economic Papers, Economica, Mathematical Social Sciences, Economic Letters, Games, etc. He has also contributed to several edited book volumes published by OUP and MIT Press.
Prof. Dhami has given invited seminars at the leading Universities, such as Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, and Zurich, and taught several invited courses in behavioral economics at the Bavarian Joint PhD program, LMU Munich, and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.