From demand curves to public policy: introduction to the special issue on behavioral economics.
From demand curves to public policy: introduction to the special issue on behavioral economics.
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从需求曲线到公共政策:行为经济学特刊介绍。
DOI:
10.1002/jeab.8
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发表时间:
2013
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
Hackenberg,TimothyD
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作者:
Hackenberg,TimothyD
The papers comprising this issue were first presented as part of a meeting sponsored by the Science Board of the Association for Behavior Analysis, International, in Chicago, 2011. The conference, entitled “Behavioral Economics: From Demand Curves to Public Policy,” was so named to capture a breadth of topics covered by the papers at the meeting, and well represented in the present issue.The coupling of behavioral economics and behavior analysis is not new. Productive interactions span four decades, with some of the seminal papers appearing in this journal (Hursh, 1980, 1984; Rachlin & Krasnoff, 1983). As a tangible indicator of the growth of the field (or at least the part of the field intersecting most directly with behavior analysis), a 1995 issue of the journal featured 10 papers on behavioral economics, on topics ranging from choice and discounting to behavioral pharmacology and behavioral ecology. The productive trends between behavioral economics and behavior analysis, apparent in the 1995 issue, have continued to the present day. In addition to the sustained development of some branches with strong empirical roots in behavior analysis (eg, discounting, demand functions), the field has sprouted some new branches, most notably promising new interfaces with the brain, with genetics, and with social behavior. This productive mix of old and new is on display in the current issue. Several of the papers cluster around the topic of delay discounting. This emphasis is appropriate given the deep roots of discounting phenomena in behavior analysis. Indeed, among the initial violations of classical economic theory were the preference