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There is enough evidence to be confident that individuals are able and willing to provide a meaningful answer when asked to value on a finite scale their satisfaction with their own lives, a question that psychologists have long and often posed to respondents of large questionnaires.
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Does Economics Have an Effect? Towards an Economics of Economics [PDF]
Working paper / Institute for Empirical Research in Economics ...
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AbstractRecent studies in psychology and neuroscience offer systematic evidence that fictional works exert a surprisingly strong influence on readers and have the power to shape their opinions and worldviews. Building on these findings, we study ‘Potterian economics’, the economic ideas, insights and structure, found in Harry Potter books, to assess ...
Levy, Daniel, Snir, Avichai
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Behavioral economics uses evidence from psychology and other social sciences to create a precise and fruitful alternative to traditional economic theories, which are based on optimization. Behavioral economics may interest some biologists, as it shifts the basis for theories of economic choice away from logical calculation and maximization and toward ...
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Parenting decisions are among the most consequential choices that people make throughout their lives. Starting with the work of pioneers such as Gary Becker, economists have used the tool set of their discipline to understand what parents do and how parents’ actions affect their children.
Giuseppe Sorrenti+3 more
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Institutional Economics—The Economics of Ecological Economics!
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Annual address by Governor Svein Gjedrem at the meeting of the Supervisory Council of Norges Bank on Thursday, 15 February 2007.
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Evolutionary economics and economic geography [PDF]
This article attempts to explore how key notions from Evolutionary Economics, such as selection, path-dependency, chance and increasing returns, may be applied to two key topics in Economic Geography. The first issue is the problem of how to specify the (potential) impact of the spatial environment on new variety in terms of technological change ...
Ron A. Boschma, Jan G. Lambooy
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The Economics of Agricultural Economics
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1969AS an economist addressing other economists, it seems natural to me to use our basic analytical tools as a framework for discussing future challenges to our profession. Thus, an evaluation of the supply and demand for the services of agricultural economists seems to me to be an interesting and useful intellectual enterprise.
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