Dietrich, Franz; List, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Behaviourism is the view that preferences, beliefs, and other mental states in social-scienti�c theories are auxiliary …. While behaviourism has long gone out of fashion in psychology and linguistics, it remains the dominant orthodoxy in … mentalist approach to economics. Setting aside normative concerns about behaviourism, we show that mentalism is in line with …