The foundations of positive and normative economics : a handbook

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NEUROECONOMICS: A CRITICAL RECONSIDERATION (2008, background): “Gul and Pesendorfer (2008) stirred a debate, collected in Caplin and Schotter (2008), on the methodological status of neuroeconomics as positive economics.20 They argued that positive economics is defined over choices, and makes no assumptions or predictions about the physiology or processes of the…”
Risk aversion relates to cognitive ability: Preferences or Noise? (2016, background): “While our contribution has clear implications for positive economics (the measurement of risk preferences), it also relates to some deep and difficult issues in normative economics (see the discussion in Caplin and Schotter 2008).”
Choice by Lexicographic Semiorders (2009, unknown): “Our main aim was to extend Tversky’s idea into a model of choice and to tease out the observable implications of the model, in the spirit of the revealed preference approach (see Caplin 2008, Gul and Pesendorfer 2008, Rubinstein and Salant 2008 for methodological discussions of this issue).”
Uncertainty, Expectations and Behavioural Aspects of Housing Market Choices (2011, background): “These are also active areas of debate between mainstream economists and advocates of alternative, more psychologically informed theory (see e.g. Caplin & Schotter 2008).”