As seen with the United Nations significant promotion of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the past few years, the issue of global development is of growing concern to many international organizations. As humanity continues to become more interconnected through globalization, the inequalities and injustices experienced by inhabitants of impacted countries becomes increasingly clear. While this issue can be observed in the papers of different types (e.g., different schools of thought) of economists throughout the world, the work of behavioral and complexity economists offer a unique, collaborative perspective on how to frame decisions for individuals in a way that can positively reverberate throughout society and throughout time. 2018 Level: początkujący Behavioural vs Complexity Economics: Approaches to Development Erika Sloan Pluralist Economics Fellowship Have you ever wondered why it is so difficult to follow through on new year’s resolutions, such as to exercise more or to start saving more money towards retirement? The agent that most traditional economic models are based on would not struggle to keep up these resolutions. These agents are referred to as homo economicus. 2018 Level: początkujący Homo Economicus: Why are new year’s resolutions so difficult to maintain and economic models so bad at predicting our behaviour? Antonia T. Schröder Pluralist Economics Fellowship Since Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Memorial Price in Economic Sciences in 2002, a new branch of economics gained academic and popular interest. That is, the so-called area of behavioural economics. However, some scholars claim that this new area of economics is not changing much of the mainstream paradigm. Why? 2019 Level: zaawansowane Is Behavioural Economics the New Mainstream? Leonardo Conte Rethinking Economics Switzerland As opposed to the conventional over-simplified assumption of self-interested individuals, strong evidence points towards the presence of heterogeneous other-regarding preferences in agents. Incorporating social preferences – specifically, trust and reciprocity - and recognizing the non-constancy of these preferences across individuals can help models better represent the reality. 2019 Level: zaawansowane A fresh perspective to economic theory: Social preferences and their impact on gender and policy Sheral Shah Exploring Economics What are the implications of the politics of "behavioural change"? Alexander Feldmann took a closer look for you on nudging and framing and if this is a legitimate instrument being used by the state to make us behave better in terms of our carbon footprint. 2019 Level: początkujący Politics as supermarket? Or how current policy design changes the relationship between the state and its citizens Alexander Feldmann Exploring Economics In this TED Talk, the behavioral economist Dan Ariely explain how changing our environment could change our behavior and how this connects with how we think about economics, through simple but powerful examples. 2019 Level: początkujący How to change your behavior for the better Dan Ariely TED Happiness economics is a branch in behavioral economics, where it explores the economics factors and consequences of happy humans. What makes people happier, and what benefits do we get when people are happier? This dossier introduces you to the field of happiness economics, from a review of economic factors proposed to influence people’s happiness, to a discussion of the economic consequences of happiness, and concludes with economic policy implications of happiness economics. 2020 Level: początkujący Happiness Economics. Does the Easterlin paradox stand? Siyu Wang Pluralist Economics Fellowship How do people make decisions? There is a class of models in psychology which seek to answer this question but have received scant attention in economics despite some clear empirical successes. In a previous post I discussed one of these, Decision by Sampling, and this post will look at another: the so-called Fast and Frugal heuristics pioneered by the German psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer. Here the individual seeks out sufficient information to make a reasonable decision. They are ‘fast’ because they do not require massive computational effort to make a decision so can be done in seconds, and they are ‘frugal’ because they use as little information as possible to make the decision effectively. 2020 Level: początkujący Bounded Rationality: the Case of ‘Fast and Frugal’ Heuristics Cahal Moran Rethinking Economics Exploring Economics, an open-source e-learning platform, giving you the opportunity to discover & study a variety of economic theories, topics, and methods. 2020 Level: początkujący A Time for Precaution Cahal Moran Rethinking Economics In this lecture, Branko Milanovic gives an overview of the concept of inequality as conceptualized within the classical school of thought. 2020 Level: początkujący Income Inequality in Quesnay, Smith, Ricardo and Marx (Part 1: Quesnay, Smith) Branko Milanovic Youtube In this video University of Warwick Economist Robert Akerlof provides an introduction to a new type of behavioral economics He explains how this type is being driven by a desire to understand how people are shaped by social interactions and what the economic consequences of this are He begins the … 2019 Level: początkujący Behavioral Economics: The Next Generation Robert Akerlof New Economic Thinking This course introduces students to political economy and the history of economic thought. We will cover the core ideas in various schools of economic thought, positioning them in the historical and institutional context in which they were developed. In particular, we will cover some economic ideas from the ancient world and the middle ages; the enlightenment; the emergence of and main ideas in classical political economy (Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, and others); Marx, Mill, and Keynes; European versus American economic thought through history; the rise of mathematical economics; economic theories around state-managed economies versus socialism; Austrian economics; behavioral economics; and the future of economics. 2020 Level: początkujący Political Economy and the History of Economic Thought Alyssa Schneebaum Vienna University of Economics and Business This course focus on the behaviour of individuals from an pluralist economic and an interdisciplinary bevavioural science apprach. 2020 Level: zaawansowane Actors, Behaviours and Decision Processes Sigrid Stagl and Roman Hausmann University of Vienna Richard Thaler gives a lecture in the 2018 Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture at the University of Chicago. In the lecture he discusses his Nobel Prize winning research. 2018 Level: początkujący Richard Thaler on Behavioral Economics: Past, Present, and Future Richard H. Thaler The University of Chicago Through this course you will learn how individuals and firms make financial decisions and how those decisions might deviate from those predicted by traditional financial or economic theory We will explore the nature of these biases and their origins using insights from psychology neurosciences and experimental economics on how the … Level: początkujący Behavioral Investing Vaidya Nathan Indian School of Business How can we get people to save more money eat healthy foods engage in healthy behaviors and make better choices in general There has been a lot written about the fact that human beings do not process information and make decisions in an optimal fashion This course builds on much … Level: początkujący Behavioral Economics in Action Dilip Soman University of Toronto This article applies insights from behavioral economics to consider how the general public may make decisions around whether or not to receive a future COVID-19 vaccine in a context of frequent side effects and preexisting mistrust. Three common cognitive biases shown to influence human decision-making under a behavioral economics framework are considered confirmation bias, negativity bias, and optimism bias. 2021 Level: zaawansowane A behavioral economics perspective on the COVID-19 vaccine amid public mistrust. SALESKA, Jessica Londeree and CHOI, Kristen R. Society of Behavioral Medicine The book deals with the financial instability hypothesis of Hyman P. Minsky and its application to current developments. The first part of the work summarizes the hypothesis and mentions works elaborating the hypothesis. The second part applies the hypothesis to the financial crisis 0f 2008/09. 2014 Level: zaawansowane The Financial Instability Hypothesis of Hyman P. Minsky Michal Paulus LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing This book is intended as a textbook for a course in behavioural economics for advanced undergraduate and graduate students who have already learned basic economics. The book will also be useful for introducing behavioural economics to researchers. Unlike some general audience books that discuss behavioural economics, this book does not take the position of negating traditional economics completely. 2018 Level: zaawansowane Behavioral Economics Ogaki, Masao, Tanaka, Saori C. Springer Written by the Nobel Prize winners in Economics Robert Shiller and George Akerlof, this book shows how deception and manipulation play a big role in the economic behavior of individuals, as well as showing how the assumption of "perfect information" is far away from the truth. Through both quantitative data and stories of how to reduce this noxious phenomenon, the authors paint a pretty different picture of how markets really works in a hyper-communicative scenario like nowadays. 2016 Level: początkujący Phishing for Phools George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller Princeton University Press "This eleven-week course offers a pluralist introduction to political economy and economics. We will examine nine (9) competing schools of thought, each of which offer an original and distinctive illumination of economic and social reality. The course offers a level of learning that would at least match that which is offered by a University. However, you do not need to be connected to a university or to have studied political economy or economics previously to enrol in this particular subject." 2022 Level: początkujący An Introduction to Political Economy and Economics Dr Tim Thornton n.a. Who are the 86 laureates of the economics “Nobel prize”, and what are their scientific contributions? This course will present the major concepts, theories, and results in modern economics, through an overview of the work of a selection of economics “Nobel prize” as well as Leontief prize laureates. 2021 Level: zaawansowane Economics by its Nobel prizes Adrien Fabre ETH Zurich This book explores frontier work at the intersection of experimental and environmental economics, with cutting edge research provided by premier scholars in the field.The book begins by focusing on improving benefit-cost analysis, which remains the hallmark of public policy decision-making around the globe. 2006 Level: zaawansowane Using Experimental Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics John A. List Edward Elgar