...Philippe Fontaine This article provides a historical account of the developments of research into seemingly unselfish behavior between 1975 and 1993. I shall first argue that the triumph of the self-interest model in the examination of seemingly unselfish behavior can better be understood...

...Craufurd Goodwin This article explores the evolution of perceptions of the behavior of consumers among economists and others. The article has three parts. The first part discusses the development of a hypothesis about the stability of this behavior: that the consumers know what they want...

... to shape rather than explain behavior. Correspondence may be addressed to Catherine Herfeld, University of Zurich Philosophisches Seminar, Zürichbergstrasse 43, CH-8044 Zurich; e-mail: [email protected] . Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Jacob Marschak Tjalling Koopmans...

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...: Montesquieu’s Relativist Analysis of Gender Behavior Chris Nyland Charles Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755), pioneered the systematic analysis of the ways in which patterns of gender behavior emerge from the interaction between the environment and human bi- ology. He believed...

... Book Reviews 189 Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. By John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern. Sixtieth anniversary edition, with an introduction by Harold W. Kuhn and an afterword by Ariel Rubinstein. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. xxxii; 741 pp. $50.00. With 2004 marking...

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... Smith and Modern Economics: From Market Behaviour to Public Choice. By Edwin G. West. Brookfield, Ver.: Edward Elgar, 1990. vii, 212 pp. $47.95. Although not likely to suit everyone’s appetite, this very readable volume is a hermeneutic feast. An exercise in selective celebration...

... economics into the BSP in a substantial manner, premised on the belief that economic analysis could be greatly strengthened by the behavioral science orientation, with its emphasis on rigorous empirical study of actual human behavior. Yet these efforts failed, in large part because economists, especially...

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... and history of science to measurement theory. Beyond the history it records, it can become an important instrument itself in helping to clarify the standards and the arguments employed to assess, criticize, and plum the measurability of any causal variable in the explanation of behavior and the guidance...

... . “Engineering Behavior: Project Pigeon, World War II, and the Conditioning of B. F. Skinner.” Technology and Culture 34 ( 4 ): 835 – 57 . ———. 1999 . Psychologists on the March: Science, Practice, and Professional Identity in America, 1929–1969 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press...

... behavior. This compelled experimental economists to stake out a position for the economics discipline regarding the results. Much to their surprise, their experiments corroborated the results of the psychologists. This led them to completely discard preference theory but at the same time to emphasize...

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