Behavioral Economics
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Behavioral Economics

A History

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eBook - PDF

Behavioral Economics

A History

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781107039346
eBook ISBN
9781139699075
Topic
Economics
Subtopic
Economic History
Index
Economics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Understanding Human Behavior
  11. 2 The Incorporation of von Neumann and Morgenstern’s Behavioral Axioms in Economics and Psychology
  12. 3 “Measurement Theory in Psychology Is Behavior Theory”
  13. 4 Kahneman and Tversky
  14. 5 Incorporating Psychological Experiments in Economics and the Construction of Behavioral Economics
  15. 6 Building and Defining Behavioral Economics
  16. Epilogue
  17. References
  18. Index