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Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field
Frey, Bruno S. (contributor); Stutzer, Alois (contributor) - The MIT Press
The integration of economics and psychology has created a vibrant and fruitful emerging field of study. The essays in … Economics and Psychology take a broad view of the interface between these two disciplines, going beyond the usual focus on … "behavioral economics." As documented in this volume, the influence of psychology on economics has been responsible for a view of …
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Mentalism versus behaviourism in economics: a philosophy-of-science perspective
Dietrich, Franz; List, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
. While behaviourism has long gone out of fashion in psychology and linguistics, it remains the dominant orthodoxy in …
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Neuroeconomics, naturalism and language
Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - Frankfurt School of Finance and Management - 2008
Neuroeconomics stays in the center of the ongoing naturalistic turn in economics. It portrays the individual as a complex system of decision making mechanisms and modules. This results into a conceptual tension with the standard economic notion of the unity of the actor that is a systemic...
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The naturalistic turn in economics: implications for the theory of finance
Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - Frankfurt School of Finance and Management - 2008
Economics is increasingly adopting the methodological standards and procedures of the natural sciences. The paper analyzes this 'naturalistic turn' from the philosophical perspective on naturalism, and I discuss the implications for the field of finance. The theory of finance is an interesting...
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How mindless is standard economics really?
Schipper, Burkhard C. - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 2009
Contrary to claims by Gul and Pesendorfer (2008), I show that standard economics makes use of non-choice evidence in a meaningful way. This is because standard economics solely grounded in the theory of choice is ""incomplete"". That is, it has content that cannot be revealed with any general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008620454
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How mindless is standard economics really?
Schipper, Burkhard C - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Contrary to claims by Gul and Pesendorfer (2008), I show that standard economics makes use of non-choice evidence in a meaningful way. This is because standard economics solely grounded in the theory of choice is "incomplete". That is, it has content that can not be revealed with any general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578284
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Neuroeconomics and Decision Making Process
CONSTANTINESCU, Madalina - In: Theoretical and Practical Research in Economic Fields I (2010) 2, pp. 210-210
Neuroeconomics unified the once disparate fields of economics and psychology. The central thesis of the paper is that … – Neuroeconomics has inspired more change within economics than within psychology because the most important findings in Neuroeconomics …
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Od człowieka racjonalnego do emocjonalnego. Zmiana paradygmatu nauk ekonomicznych
Wach, Krzysztof - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper discusses the concept of an economic man in economics and management. The concept of “homo oeconomicus” assumes the full rational behaviour of a deciding man and was applied in classical and neoclassical theories. Based on resent findings of the neuronal, cognitive and behavioural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147885
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Neuroeconomics: Constructing Identity
Davis, John B - Department of Economics, College of Business Administration - 2010
This paper asks whether neuroeconomics will make instrumental use of neuroscience to adjudicate existing disputes in economics or be more seriously informed by neuroscience in ways that might transform economics. The paper pursues the question by asking how neuroscience constructs an...
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BEYOND THE ANSWER: MAKING SENSE OF NEUROPRUDENCE
KAMALNATH, Anthea Jay - In: Journal of Advanced Research in Law and Economics III (2012) 2, pp. 4-19
A favourite uncle wants to borrow money from you but he is a compulsive gambler. In three years, he has gone through nearly a million dollars, depleting all of his savings. His life and marriage are just about on the rocks. His only child has no resources to finance her college education. As you...
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