Julio Huato wrote: > > Now, you're right about Kahneman and Tversky starting their careers as > > professional psychologists. But, for all practical effects, the > > economics Nobel is like an adoption certificate.
Dan Zale wrote: > Have a look at a college textbook in Cognitive Psychology. The work of > Kahneman > and Tversky is featured in many sections of such books. The focus is the > psychology of human decision-making, all kinds of decisions. yes, but they aren't cited by very many economics textbooks as far as I can tell. Krugman & Wells is an exception, but Kahneman is placed in a "box" for "interest readers," which means that he'll be ignored. It's the textbooks that count. They represent the dominant ideology among economists, the one that students are pushed to learn and take to heart. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
