The Community of Advantage

By Robert Sugden. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2018

186 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This is an interview by the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (EJPE) with Robert Sugden. The interview covers the intellectual trajectory of Sugden, from his early critique of Amartya Sen’s liberalism, to his interactions with James Buchanan and his contributions to behavioural economics. A major theme in the interview is Sugden’s development of a rival program of normative economics based on modern behavioural economics. The interview also discusses Sugden’s recent book The Community of Advantage which synthesizes many of the themes he worked on.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences, Safety Research

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ca6fcc87eaf9df1b5baa73917c06d909f8c412d0

Citations in the corpus

• A Review of Nudges: Definitions, Justifications, Effectiveness (2020, unknown): “As Infante et al. (2016) and Sugden (2018) argue, the idea of decision-makers having “true” preferences presupposes a model of decision making where an “inner rational agent” with “true” preferences is entrapped in a “outer psychological shell” responsible for distorting such preferences.”