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...: “Behavioral Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Behavior.” www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/2001/akerlof-video.html . Allison, James. 1983 . Behavioral Economics . New York: Praeger. Altman, Morris. Forthcoming. The Novel Prize in Behavioral and Experimental Economics: A Contextual and Critical Appraisal...

...Floris Heukelom To understand the relationship between experimental and behavioral economics, we need to go back to the late 1970s and early 1980s. In the 1970s, psychologists began conducting new kinds of experiments, the results of which seemed to falsify the assumption of rational individual...

...Alex Rosenberg Measuring Utility: From the Marginal Revolution to Behavioral Economics . By Moscati Ivan . New York : Oxford University Press , 2019 . vii; 326 pp. $34.95 . Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 974 Book Reviews Measuring Utility: From the Marginal...

...Allison Demeritt; Karla Hoff A core insight of behavioral economics is that we are “fast thinkers”; very little human thinking resembles the rational, deliberate type that charac-terizes homo economicus . What is less well recognized is that our innate reliance on cognitive shortcuts means...

...Andrej Svorenčík Over two days in February 1988, several key experimental economists and cognitive psychologists met to explore the possibilities of joint research promoted by the Sloan and Russell Sage Foundations under the rubric behavioral economics. The original vision that the meeting could...

... – 323 . Wilkinson N. Klaes M. A. 2012 . Introduction to Behavioural Economics . 2nd ed. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan . Theoretical Behaviorism, Economic Theory, and Choice John Staddon Psychology is not a single science. There are—alas—many psychologies...

...Jefferson Pooley; Mark Solovey American economics largely ignored the behavioral sciences movement in the decade after World War II. The social scientists who adopted the “behavioral sciences” moniker were self-consciously nomothetic, fond of mathematics and statistical analysis, and eager to stand...

...Catherine Herfeld; Edoardo Peruzzi Abstract This article explores steps toward cross-disciplinary interactions between economics and the behavioral sciences in the second half of the twentieth century. It focuses on Jacob Marschak's professional biography to illuminate how these interactions shaped...

... , Philip . 1953 . TVA and the Grass Roots: A Study in the Sociology of Formal Organization . Berkeley : University of California Press . Sen , Amartya . 1977 . “ Rational Fools: A Critique of the Behavioral Foundations of Economic Theory .” Philosophy & Public Affairs 6 , no. 4...

...José Edwards There is a misunderstanding about the meaning of behaviorism in recent discussions on the history of economics and psychology. This essay explores that “behaviorist myth” by highlighting the role of “control” as defined by behaviorists and contrasting their views against those...

... . London : Routledge . Hosseini Hamid . 2003 . “ The Arrival of Behavioral Economics .” Journal of Socio-Economics 32 : 391 – 409 . Kaminitz Shiri Cohen . 2013 . “ Economics and Ethics Meet under the Same Umbrella: Edgeworth’s ‘Exact Utilitarianism’ (1877-81) .” Utilitas 25 ( 4...

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... 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...

... Economic Behavior. American Economic Review 62.4 : 580 -90. Edgeworth, Francis Y. [1881] 1967 . Mathematical Psychics: An Essay on the Application of Mathematics to the Moral Sciences . New York: Augustus M. Kelley. Fabricant, Solomon. 1962 . An Economist's View of Philanthropy . In Dickinson...

..., within the discipline itself, to the public policy implications of seemingly unselfish behavior. Then I shall argue that the various efforts to go beyond the self-interest model in economics and political science failed to build a coherent alternative model and produced equally ambiguous policy...

... . London: A. & C. Black. Georgescu-Roegen , N. 1966 . Analytical Economics: Issues and Problems . Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Grassl , W. 1986 . Markets and Morality: Austrian Perspectives on the Economic Approach to Human Behaviour. In Austrian Economics , edited by W...

... 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...

... of Behavior in a Dynamic Universe: Mélanges en l'Honneur d'Henri Guiton . Paris: Dalloz. Niehans , J. 1990 . A History of Economic Theory: Classic Contributions, 1972–1980 . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Rellstab , U. (forthcoming). Der Beitrag Oskar Morgensterns zur “Theory...

... and their views of the nature of economic analysis to try to see some of the power of Taylor's distinction. The essay concludes by looking at recent work in behavioral economics as evidence that economists can consider broader criteria than utility maximization in examining economic behavior. Only if economics...

... and psychology, though recently there has been a steady rise in the numbers of both psychologists and economists interested in behavioral economics. From both disciplines have come behavioral challenges to the strong version of rational choice thinking. And, along with them, have come challenges...