The death and resurrection of 'economics with psychology': remarks from a methodological standpoint

One of the merits of contemporary economic analysis is its capacity to offer accounts of choice behavior that dispense with details of the complex decision machinery. The starting point of this paper is the concern with the important methodological debate about whether economics might offer accurate...

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Main Author:	Roberta Muramatsu
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Editora 34 2009-03-01
Series:	Brazilian Journal of Political Economy
Subjects:	economics psychology anomalies prediction explanation
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-31572009000100004

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spelling	doaj-005412d310de4e618342301423b34d3e2020-11-24T23:57:13ZengEditora 34Brazilian Journal of Political Economy0101-31571809-45382009-03-01291628110.1590/S0101-31572009000100004The death and resurrection of 'economics with psychology': remarks from a methodological standpointRoberta MuramatsuOne of the merits of contemporary economic analysis is its capacity to offer accounts of choice behavior that dispense with details of the complex decision machinery. The starting point of this paper is the concern with the important methodological debate about whether economics might offer accurate predictions and explanations of actual behavior without any reference to psychological presuppositions. Inspired by an exercise of rational reconstruction of ideas, I aim to offer an interpretation of the process of freeing economic analysis from psychology at the end of the 19th century and the contemporary resurrection of behavioral approaches in the late 1980s.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-31572009000100004economicspsychologyanomaliespredictionexplanation
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title	The death and resurrection of 'economics with psychology': remarks from a methodological standpoint
title_short	The death and resurrection of 'economics with psychology': remarks from a methodological standpoint
title_full	The death and resurrection of 'economics with psychology': remarks from a methodological standpoint
title_fullStr	The death and resurrection of 'economics with psychology': remarks from a methodological standpoint
title_full_unstemmed	The death and resurrection of 'economics with psychology': remarks from a methodological standpoint
title_sort	death and resurrection of 'economics with psychology': remarks from a methodological standpoint
publisher	Editora 34
series	Brazilian Journal of Political Economy
issn	0101-3157 1809-4538
publishDate	2009-03-01
description	One of the merits of contemporary economic analysis is its capacity to offer accounts of choice behavior that dispense with details of the complex decision machinery. The starting point of this paper is the concern with the important methodological debate about whether economics might offer accurate predictions and explanations of actual behavior without any reference to psychological presuppositions. Inspired by an exercise of rational reconstruction of ideas, I aim to offer an interpretation of the process of freeing economic analysis from psychology at the end of the 19th century and the contemporary resurrection of behavioral approaches in the late 1980s.
topic	economics psychology anomalies prediction explanation
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The death and resurrection of 'economics with psychology': remarks from a methodological standpoint

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