Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist

By Nava Ashraf, Colin F. Camerer, George Loewenstein. 2005

370 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Safety Research, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/b02c289162b1a16815c1ff185bd81f58b213afdd

Citations in the corpus

• What Do Laboratory Experiments Tell Us About the Real World (2006, neutral): “For further discussion on this issue see the entertaining discussion of “Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist,” in Ashraf et al. (2005). Becker (1974) introduced altruism as an explanation for why individuals give (or cooperate) when it is money-maximizing not to give (or cooperate). Scores of economist”
• Viewpoint: On the Generalizability of Lab Behaviour to the Field (2007, neutral): “For further discussion on this issue see Meardon and Ortmann (1996), Palacios-Huerta (2003), and Ashraf et al. (2005). Becker (1974) introduced altruism as an explanation for why individuals give (or cooperate) when it is money maximizing not to give (or cooperate).”
• Recent developments in the economics of entrepreneurship (2008, neutral): “Although maximizing agents and equilibrium concepts are still at the core of most models in behavioral economics, rational motivations are not required (Ashraf et al., 2005).”
• The behavioural economics of climate change (2008, neutral): “Second, much work in BE follows Adam Smith (Evensky, 2005; Ashraf et al., 2005 ), in particular The Theory of Moral Sentiments, but also The Wealth of Nations ,i n emphasizing the idea that people’s behaviour is not solely motivated by their own material pay-offs, and that issues such as perceived ”