
Can behavioural economists explain why incentives work in an asylum for the criminally insane
07 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, behavioural economics, comparative institutional analysis, experimental economics, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: economics of mental illness, token economies

David Levine on homo economicus
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, behavioural economics, economics of information, history of economic thought Tags: methodology of economics

Richard McKenzie on behavioural economics
05 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, behavioural economics Tags: cognitive biases

Nice summary of the drivers of poverty
14 May 2019 Leave a comment
in behavioural economics, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty

What might be wrong with Behavioral Economics: Deirdre McCloskey
12 May 2019 1 Comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, behavioural economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth miracles, health economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: Deirdre McCloskey
How we decide? – Steven Landsburg 2008
09 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, behavioural economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economics of regulation, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, global warming, health economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, Public Choice, public economics
The Cognitive Science Behind Repeating Mistakes
07 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, behavioural economics Tags: cognitive psychology
Against Empathy
22 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, behavioural economics, defence economics, development economics, economics of regulation, environmental economics, global warming, war and peace Tags: moral psychology
Why People Don’t Believe In Climate Science (but with no mention of solution aversion)
03 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in behavioural economics, economics of information, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism, political psychology
Trigger warnings demonstrably bring out the weakest in people
28 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in behavioural economics, economics of media and culture Tags: economics of mental illness, political correctness, trigger warnings




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