The Foundations of Positive and Normative Economics: A Handbook (Handbooks in Economic Methodologies)

by Andrew Caplin (Author), Andrew Schotter (Author)

Hardcover: 416 pages

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (April 25, 2008)

Language: English

Review

"Should economics take account of neuro-physiological data? Can subjective states of mind play a useful role in economic analysis? These and other provocative questions are examined and debated in this fascinating volume of essays from some of the deepest thinkers in contemporary economics."--Eric Maskin, Nobel Laureate in Economics, Institute for Advanced Study
"I have an especially high opinion of Caplin and Schotter. I think they are among the most creative economists around. This initiative reflects that creativity."--George Akerlof, Nobel Laureate in Economics, Koshland Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley
"Are you puzzled by the implications of behavioral economics? Are we in the throes of a paradigm shift? Is neoclassical economics refuted? Economic methodology has never been more disputed. If you want to be part of the debate, this book is the place to start."--Ken Binmore, University College London

Product Description
The Foundations of Positive and Normative Economics: A Handbook is the first book in a new series by Andrew Caplin and Andrew Schotter. There is currently no guide available on the rapidly changing methodological frontiers of the field of economics. Economists have been introducing new theories and new sources of data at a remarkable rate in recent years, and there are widely divergent views both on how productive these expansions have been in the past, and how best to make progress in the future. The speed of these changes has left economists ill at ease, and has created a backlash against new methods. The series will debate these critical issues, allowing proponents of a particular research method to present proposals in a safe yet critical context, with alternatives being clarified. This first volume, written by some of the most prominent researchers in the discipline, reflects the challenges that are opened by new research opportunities. The goal of the current volume and the series it presages, is to formally open a dialogue on methodology. The editors' conviction is that such a debate will rebound to the benefit of social science in general, and economics in particular. The issues under discussion strike to the very heart of the social scientific enterprise. This work is of tremendous importance to all who are interested in the contributions that academic research can make not only to our scientific understanding, but also to matters of policy.

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Contents
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Contributors xi
Series Introduction xiii
Volume Introduction xv
PART I. SETTING THE STAGE
1. The Case for Mindless Economics—Faruk Gul and
Wolfgang Pesendorfer 3
PART II. THE DEBATE
2. The Case for Mindful Economics—Colin Camerer 43
3. What’s So Informative about Choice?—Andrew Schotter 70
4. On Two Points of View Regarding Revealed Preference and
Behavioral Economics—Ran Spiegler 95
5. Some Thoughts on the Principle of Revealed Preference—Ariel
Rubinstein and Yuval Salant 116
6. Mindless or Mindful Economics: A Methodological
Evaluation—Daniel Hausman 125
PART III. NEW DIRECTIONS FOR
NORMATIVE ECONOMICS
7. Choice-Theoretic Foundations for BehavioralWelfare
Economics—B. Douglas Bernheim and Antonio Rangel 155
8. Revealed Mistakes and Revealed Preferences—Botond Köszegi
and Matthew Rabin 193
9. The Economist as Therapist:Methodological Ramifications of
“Light” Paternalism—George Loewenstein and Emily Haisley 210
PART IV. NEW DIRECTIONS FOR
POSITIVE ECONOMICS
10. Look-ups as theWindows of the Strategic Soul—Vincent P.
Crawford 249
11. Revealed Preference and Bounded Rationality—Douglas Gale 281
12. The Seven Properties of Good Models—Xavier Gabaix and David
Laibson 292
13. Researcher Incentives and Empirical Methods—Edward L.
Glaeser 300
14. Choice and Process: Theory Ahead of Measurement—Jess
Benhabib and Alberto Bisin320
15. Economic Theory and Psychological Data: Bridging
the Divide—Andrew Caplin 336
Index 373

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