Daily Archives: December 12th, 2008

Predicting Preferences is Rational

In a review of a paper by Camerer and Fehr on social neuroeconomics, Benoit Hardy-Vallée of Natural Rationality makes the point:

So basically, we have enough evidence to justify a model of rational agents as entertaining social preferences. As I argue in a forthcoming paper (let me know if you want to have a copy), these [...]

Peter Pan was an Economist: Msc in Behavioral Economics at University of Nottingham

In the far distant future when I finish my Masters in Mathematics here at Portland State, I’m considering getting a second Masters in Economics.  A particularly interesting program is the one at the University of Nottingham in Behavioral Economics.
Behavioral Economics consists of much of what I like most: Game theory, emperical research, an honest assesment [...]