This paper examines the research area identified by Frey and Gallus (Aggregate Effects of Behavioral Anomalies: A New Research Area, 2014) and the relationship between it and the choices that economists make. It supports the Frey and Gallus view that, as a consequence of individuals employing...

This book is unique among modern contributions to behavioral economics in presenting a grand synthesis between the kind of behavioral economics popularized by Richard Thaler, earlier approaches such as those of the 1978 Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon, evolutionary psychology, and evolutionary...

1. Introduction -- 2. Human Adaptability and Economic Surprise -- 3. Learning and Decision-Making in Economics and Psychology: A Methodological Perspective -- 4. On Psyching up Economics -- 5. Neoclassical Economics and the Psychology of Risk and Uncertainty -- 6. Prospects for Mathematical...