Behavioral economics
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"Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, so that nothing but bubbles of bliss can be seen on the surface; give him economic prosperity, such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes and busy himself with the continuation of his species, and even then out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick. He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element." --Notes from Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
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Behavioral economics and its related area of study, behavioral finance, use social, cognitive and emotional factors in understanding the economic decisions of individuals and institutions performing economic functions, including consumers, borrowers and investors, and their effects on market prices, returns and the resource allocation. The fields are primarily concerned with the bounds of rationality of economic agents. Behavioral models typically integrate insights from psychology with neo-classical economic theory.
Behavioral analysts are not only concerned with the effects of market decisions but also with public choice, which describes another source of economic decisions with related biases towards promoting self-interest.
See also
- Adaptive market hypothesis
- Behavioral finance
- Behavioral Operations Research
- Cognitive bias
- Cognitive psychology
- Confirmation bias
- Cultural economics
- Culture change
- Economic sociology
- Emotional bias
- Experimental economics
- Experimental finance
- Fuzzy-trace theory
- Habit (psychology)
- Hindsight bias
- Important publications in behavioral finance(economics)
- Journal of Behavioral Finance
- List of cognitive biases
- Methodological individualism
- Neuroeconomics
- Observational techniques
- Rationality
- Repugnancy costs
- Socioeconomics
- Socionomics