The roots of behavioural economics go back to the 1950s, when economist and cognitive psychologist Herbert Simon began to look at ways to merge those two fields. Mainstream neoclassical theory had ...

Richard Thaler won the Nobel prize for economics this week. Thaler won it for his work on behavioural economics. This is the science of trying to convince other economists that human beings are not ...

Behavioral Economics is the application of psychology to the field of economics. It describes the role that psychology plays among consumers, employers, and governments, which then impacts markets and ...

Economic theory has conventionally adopted the 'self-love' or 'far-sighted maximizer' assumption. Contemporary economics has qualified the utilitarian tradition, seeking to enlarge its range of ...

Theoria: An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, SEGUNDA EPOCA, Vol. 18, No. 3(48) (Septiembre 2003), pp. 297-323 (27 pages) In several recent papers Arthur Robson ...

Economics needs to change. By this I do not mean that the structure of the economy itself needs to change, although reform is clearly needed on that front. Rather, I refer to the academic discipline ...

This course is available on the BSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, BSc in Economics, BSc in Mathematics and Economics, BSc in Mathematics with Economics, BSc in Mathematics, Statistics ...