Advancing Beyond Advances in Behavioral Economics
Author(s) -
Drew Fudenberg
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of economic literature
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 11.771
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1547-1101
pISSN - 0022-0515
DOI - 10.1257/jel.44.3.694
Subject(s) - behavioral economics , field (mathematics) , economics , positive economics , behavioural sciences , focus (optics) , management science , psychology , neoclassical economics , microeconomics , psychotherapist , physics , mathematics , pure mathematics , optics
This essay discusses the field of behavioral economics, with a focus on the papers in Advances in Behavioral Economics . These papers show that there is a body of ?behavioral facts? that is both economically significant and regular enough to be modeled. For the field to advance further, it should devote more attention to the foundations of its models, and develop unified explanations for a wider range of phenomena.
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