Behavioral economics has two ‘souls’: Do they both depart from economic rationality? |
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| 文献名称 | Behavioral economics has two ‘souls’: Do they both depart from economic rationality? | ||||||
| 文献作者 | Luca Zarri | ||||||
| 作者所在单位 | Economics Department, University of Verona, Italy | ||||||
| 文献分类 | 已发表文献 | ||||||
| 学科一级分类 | 经济 | ||||||
| 学科二级分类 | 行为经济学 | ||||||
| 文献摘要 | In this paper, I argue that behavioral economics, far from being a monolithic theory, consists of two different ‘souls’ and that a fundamental asymmetry exists between them, with regard to the nature of the departures from the economics’ ‘canonical model’ they focus on. While a first class of departures deals with the major cognitive limitations and systematic biases in decision-making affecting economic behavior, a second research area investigates deviations from the classic assumption that economic agents are systematically driven by the pursuit of material self-interest. Even though on methodological grounds the two research areas share a broadly inductive approach – as they both aim at incorporating the major results obtained through several empirical methods (in particular, via experimental work) into formal economic analysis –, I claim that rather different methodological conclusions and regulatory and policy implications can be drawn, depending on the cognitive or social nature of the departures from the standard economic model under study. | ||||||
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| 关键字 | Behavioral economics; Rationality; Social preferences; Cognitive limitations; Economic methodology | ||||||
| 发表所在刊物（或来源） | Journal of Socio-Economics Volume 39, Issue 5, October 2010, Pages 562-567 | ||||||
| 发表时间 | 2010-10-01 | ||||||
| 适用研究领域 | 行为与实验经济学，演化经济学 | ||||||
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