Behavioural economics
In Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, London, 2008, pp. 846–853
Abstract
Since economics is certainly concerned with human behaviour – with, as Marshall put it, ‘[the] study of mankind in the ordinary business of life’ – the phrase ‘behavioural economics’ appears to be a pleonasm. What non-behavioural…
