Dietrich, Franz; List, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
mentalist approach to economics. Setting aside normative concerns about behaviourism, we show that mentalism is in line with …Behaviourism is the view that preferences, beliefs, and other mental states in social-scienti�c theories are auxiliary … constructs re-describing people's behav- ioural dispositions. Mentalism is the view that they capture real phenomena, no less …