There is much debate as to why economics students display more self-interested behavior than other students: whether … homo economicus self-select into economics or students are instead “indoctrinated” by economics learning, and whether these …

We provide here an overall critical assessment of Behavioral Economics, and its historical role in the transformation … of economics as a discipline. As a first step, necessary to give a proper evaluation of this role, we define and isolate … components. The exoteric version, presented to the public and to the general practitioner of economics, claims that the aim of …

Concerns about gender equality have jumped to the forefront of public debate in recent years, and Gender Economics is …

This chapter explores the evolution and contribution of social economics to modern political economic analysis. It … reviews the origins and early history of social economics, discusses more fully recent postwar social economics, and then … identifies new themes in social economics’ current research agenda. Social economics is distinguished from classical political …

This paper begins with a discussion on James Buchanan's suggestion to replace the word "economics" with "symbiotics …

In 1987, the Journal of Labor Economics published an issue on the economics of personnel. Since then, personnel … economics, defined as the application of labor economics principles to business issues, has become a major part of labor … economics, now accounting for a substantial proportion of papers in this and other journals. Much of the work in personnel …

This paper begins with a discussion on James Buchanan's suggestion to replace the word "economics" with "symbiotics …