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The goal of behavioural economics is to improve the explanatory and predictive power of economics. This can be achieved by using theoretical and methodological resources of psychology. Its fundamental idea is that the relationship between psychology and economics cannot be subsumed under standard philosophical accounts of intertheoretical relations.
Philosophical Problems of Behavioural... Read more
1. Introduction
2. The Ontological Status of Economic Preferences
3. Selectionist Arguments against a Deidealisation of Economics
4. Aggregation and the Deidealisation of Economic Theory
5. Explanatory Autonomy and Intertheoretic Relations
6. Localising Anomalies of Economic Theory
7. The Structure of Behavioral Economic Theories
8. Models in Economics: Standard and Behavioral
9. Conclusion
Biography
Stefan Heidl is a lecturer and research associate at the Institute for Philosophy, University of Bonn, Germany.
