Eugene Coyle wrote:
> Jim,
>        I'm not railing here against the economics profession (though I'm 
> happy to do so) but rather asking "Is there anything in behavioral economics 
> that economists didn't already know?"

there are a lot of details (such as framing effects and loss aversion)
that mainstream economists didn't know but nothing important. The key
thing is that there is now a pretty establishmentarian part of the
economics profession which rejects "homo economicus." That doesn't
mean, however, that they've got much to replace it.

-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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