Behavioral economics
By: [by] Peter A. Diamond
Contributors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics
Series: Working paper series / Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics -- working paper 08-03; Working paper (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics) -- no. 08-03.
Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10
Description: This comment was written for a special issue of the Journal of Public Economics which contains papers written for a conference. The papers cover a range of topics and approaches in behavioral economics, including issues of individual behavior, of the measurement of the consequences of individual behavior, and of incorporating these pictures of individual behavior into normative analysis. The comment touches on three topics in behavioral analyses: (1) the roles of equilibrium and context/situation; (2) issues in doing normative evaluations; and (3) happiness studies. Keywords: Behavioral economics, Happiness, Changing preferences. JEL Classifications: A12, D6, H, B5.
Notes: "March 15, 2008."

Includes bibliographical references (leaf 10).

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