My purposes in this essay are two-fold. First, I provide some background on the disciplines of economics and sociology … two disciplines, a brief outline of the basic characteristics of each disciplinary perspective, and a brief discussion of … the emerging opportunities for useful exchange between the two disciplines. Second, I examine the prospects that the …

common to many disciplines, facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration, provide a useful multidisciplinary tool when the math … is intractable, and reveal unity across disciplines. While ABM can be a hard sell, convergence within the agent …

Interdisciplinarity in behavioral economics (BE) has often been described as limited or decreasing since the 1980s. In … find that following an intense period of knowledge transfer among a handful of individuals, interdisciplinarity between … economics and psychology has decreased in BE since the 1980s. However, this decreasing interdisciplinarity in BE has been …