This manuscript was written as an entry in the international Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Behavioral economics is the combination of psychology and economics that investigates what happens in markets in which some of the agents display human limitations and complications. We begin with a preliminary question about relevance.

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