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Behavioural economics and development economics

Behavioural economics incorporates insights from psychology to strengthen the explanatory power of microeconomics. As a result of the rapid expansion of behavioural economics in the recent past, it is increasingly becoming part of mainstream economics and its influence on policy formulation is growing.
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Economics and Consumer Behaviour.

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General), 1981
R. P. Byron, Angus Deaton, John Muellbauer   +2 more
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Rationality and Economic Behaviour

1993
Economists are looking for microfoundations of macroeconomics. Since an individual’s choices are constrained by decisions that cannot be interpreted as resulting from aggregation of individual preferences, we can also set the problem of what are the macrofoundations of microeconomics.
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The Economic Behaviour of the Individual

2016
In Chapter 1 we focused on the evolution of Homo sapiens. In this chapter we focus on the individual, that is Homo economicus, an imaginary, “rational”, individual with a long history.
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A synthesis of behavioural and mainstream economics

Nature Human Behaviour, 2019
Mainstream economic theory is based on the rationality assumption: that people act as best they can to promote their interests. In contrast, behavioural economics holds that people act by behavioural rules of thumb, often with poor results. We propose a synthesis according to which people indeed act by rules, which usually work well, but may work ...
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The Sociology of Economic Behaviour

1970
Each of these pieces is a clear and simple exposition of a very different theme. Each, however, shows how deeply embedded in social structures are the workings of economic systems; the history, values, attitudes and interpersonal behaviour of men and women play a large part in shaping economic activities, while much social behaviour in turn is shaped ...
D. Roy, Shizuo Matsushima
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Behavioural Anomalies and Economics

1992
Over the last few years the findings by experimental psychologists that individual behaviour systematically violates rationality have caught the attention of many social scientists, among them some economists. A key experience for economists was the presentation of major anomalies by Kahneman and Tversky (1979) in Econometrica.
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Advertising and Economic Behaviour

Operational Research Quarterly (1970-1977), 1976
W. D. Reekie, K. Cowling, J. Cable, M. Kelly, T. McGuiness   +4 more
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Behavioural and Experimental Economics

2010
Contents General Preface Introduction List of Contributors List of Entries Entries A-Z ...
Lawrence E. Blume, Steven N. Durlauf
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Behavioural Economics and Policy

2019
This chapter presents the public policy relevance of the findings from behavioural economics. Topics include forms of paternalism (libertarian, constitutionally constrained, autonomy-enhancing, and asymmetric). It closes with a discussion of the Save More Tomorrow programme.
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