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Behavioural economics and development economics

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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.
Kebede, Bereket
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On the use and potential of behavioural economics from the perspective of transport and climate change [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Transport Geography, 2012
It can be argued that the main thinking in transport planning and policy making stem from neoclassical economics in which individuals are largely assumed to make rational, consistent, and efficient choices, and apply cognitive processes of decision ...
Erel Avineri
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Behavioural economics

London Business School Review, 2019
This chapter discusses behavioural economics, which is the study of the various factors that influence economic decision making. It examines the assumptions of the rational consumer and producer. The chapter starts by first defining behavioural economics.
David Faro, Redis Zaliauskas
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Behavioural Public Economics

2008
Interest in the field of psychology and economics has grown in recent years, stimulated largely by accumulating evidence that the neoclassical model of consumer decisionmaking provides an inadequate description of human behaviour in many economic situations. Scholars have begun to propose alternative models that incorporate insights from psychology and
B. Douglas Bernheim, Antonio Rangel
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The Morality of Economic Behaviour

2020
The links between self-interest and morality have been examined in moral philosophy since Plato. Economics is a mostly value-free discipline, having lost its original ethical dimension as described by Adam Smith. Examining moral philosophy through the framework provided by economics offers new insights into both disciplines and the discussion on the ...
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Behavioural Economics

2017
The rise of behavioural approaches in economics has been one of most significant developments in the study of economic decision-making in recent years. The increasingly acknowledged failings of standard models of choice to explain economic decisions has prompted economists to incorporate into their analysis psychological insights into individual ...
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An introduction to the behavioural economics of the environment

2022
We provide an overview of recent developments in the new field of behavioural environmental economics, starting from a brief presentation of the book structure and paying particular attention to behavioural and methodological aspects. We conclude the chapter by discussing novel frontiers and proposing avenues for further research in the field.
A. Bucciol, A. Tavoni, M. Veronesi
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From Economic Behaviour to Behavioural Economics

ACTA UNIVERSITATIS DANUBIUS. OECONOMICA, 2014
Mainstream economics postulates the existence of an economic man endowed with rational and self-interested behaviour. The aim of this article is to analyze the relevance of this attributes, since the economic behaviour is, both, a form of human action and the object of the study of economics.
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