Behavioral Economics

A History

AvFloris Heukelom

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

This book presents a history of behavioral economics. The recurring theme is that behavioral economics reflects and contributes to a fundamental reorientation of the epistemological foundations upon which economics had been based since the days of Smith, Ricardo, and Mill. With behavioral economics, the discipline has shifted from grounding its theories in generalized characterizations to building theories from behavioral assumptions directly amenable to empirical validation and refutation. The book proceeds chronologically and takes the reader from von Neumann and Morgenstern's axioms of rational behavior, through the incorporation of rational decision theory in psychology in the 1950s-70s, to the creation and rise of behavioral economics in the 1980s and 1990s at the Sloan and Russell Sage Foundations.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-10-08
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:350 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
Antal sidor:238
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107569546

Utforska kategorier

Ekonomisk historia inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Mikroekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Floris Heukelom is Assistant Professor of Economics, Radboud University Nijmegen. He specializes in the use of the experiment in twentieth-century economics and psychology. Among other journals, he has published in Science in Context, the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, History of Political Economy, and the Journal of Economic Methodology.

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'This superb book gives the reader a unique and fascinating window into the historical and intellectual origins of behavioral economics, a movement that is rebuilding economics on a new, more realistic foundation.' George Loewenstein, Herbert A. Simon Professor of Economics and Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. Understanding human behavior; 2. The incorporation of von Neumann and Morgenstern's behavioral axioms in economics and psychology; 3. 'Measurement theory in psychology is behavior theory'; 4. Kahneman and Tversky: heuristics, biases, and prospects for psychology and economics; 5. Incorporating psychological experiments in economics and the construction of behavioral economics; 6. Building and defining behavioral economics; Epilogue.