The Society the Advancement of Behavioral Economics is pleased to announce that the current newsletter is now ready for download and can be found on Newsletters section.
The Society the Advancement of Behavioral Economics is pleased to announce that the current newsletter is now ready for download and can be found on Newsletters section.
Roger Frantz
To clarify a bit. The announcement about the next issue of JBEP, vol 2, # 1 should have read:
“First articles about nudging, and heuristics.
Second, two of the articles are Richard Thaler and Gary Becker. Thaler (1945-present) is part of the Kahneman and Tversky inspired “new” behavioral economics. Gary Becker (1930-2014) is more difficult to categorize. He accepts the assumption of rational behavior, rejects the importance of the heuristics ad biases approach, and instead takes an interdisciplinary & sociological approach consistent with that of Herbert Simon. The other six articles are about people more easily categorized as members of the “old” behavioral economics. They are Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904), James Duesenberry (1918-2009), George Shackle (1903-92), Harvey Leibenstein (19221994), Hyman Minsky (1919-96), and Tibor Scitovsky (1910-2002). These six are not the only members of the “old” group. In another Issue JBEP will present some of the others. Finally, these articles are not a way to minimize the importance of the “new” behavioral economics, but hopefully a way that our profession does not forget those who came before.
Sincerely,
Roger Frantz Editor, Routledge Advances in Behavioral Economics and Finance.
Editor, Journal of behavioral Economics for Policy (sabeconomics.org/jbep)
Roger Frantz
A bit of elaboration about the next issue of JBEP (vol 2, # 1, March 2018).
Part 1 of this Issue will include 6 articles about the “old” behavioral economics group, a.k.a. the pre-Kahneman and Tversky “new” behavioral economics. These 6 are Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904), James Duesenberry (1918-2009), George Shackle (1903-92), Harvey Leibenstein (19221994), Hyman Minsky (1919-96), and Tibor Scitovsky (1910-2002). There are also two articles, one about Richard Thaler and the other about Gary Becker. The 6 articles about the “old” group is not a way to minimize the importance of the “new” behavioral economics, but hopefully a way that our profession does not forget those who came before. Part 2 of the Issue is about nudging and heuristics.