In the last decade, behavioral economics, borrowing from psychology and sociology to explain decisions inconsistent with traditional economics, has revolutionized the way economists view the world. But despite this general success, behavioral thinking has fundamentally transformed only one field of applied economics-finance. Peter Diamond and Hannu Vartiainen's Behavioral Economics and Its Applications argues that behavioral economics can have a similar impact in other fields of economics.


In this volume, some of the world's leading thinkers in behavioral economics and general economic theory make the case for a much greater use of behavioral ideas in six fields where these ideas have already proved useful but have not yet been fully incorporated--public economics, development, law and economics, health, wage determination, and organizational economics. The result is an attempt to set the agenda of an important development in economics--an agenda that will interest policymakers, sociologists, and psychologists as well as economists.

在过去的十年里，行为经济学借用心理学和社会学来解释与传统经济学不一致的决策，彻底改变了经济学家看待世界的方式。但是，尽管取得了普遍的成功，行为思维从根本上改变了应用经济学和金融学的一个领域。彼得·戴蒙德和汉努·瓦蒂亚宁的行为经济学及其应用认为，行为经济学可以在经济学的其他领域产生类似的影响。
在这本书中，一些行为经济学和一般经济理论领域的世界领先思想家提出了在六个领域更多地使用行为思想的理由，这些领域的思想已经被证明是有用的，但还没有完全纳入——公共经济学、发展、法律和经济学、卫生、工资决定，组织经济学。其结果是试图制定一项重要的经济学发展议程，这一议程将引起决策者、社会学家、心理学家以及经济学家的兴趣。