Promoting Female Interest in Economics: Limits to Nudges

Limits in modified categories of interest

‎We firstly prove the completeness of the category of crossed modules in a modified category of interest‎. ‎Afterwards‎, ‎we define pullback crossed modules and pullback cat objects that are both obtained by pullback diagrams with extra structures on certain arrows‎. ‎These constructions unify many corresponding results for the cases of groups‎, ‎commutative algebras and can also be adapted to ...

WAEA Keynote Address Behavioral Environmental Economics: Money Pumps & Nudges

For the last twenty-five years I have worked on understanding the behavioral underpinnings of environmental policy. My work has explored how institutions, incentives, and nature interact, with the goal of finding tools to help provide environmental protection at lower cost. The research revolves around a Rule of One: one rational person can move society toward predicted market equilibria; one i...

The Limits of Economics

FOREWORD The prevailing lack of understanding as to the significance of economics fqr practical economic life, and its usefulness for purposes of economic policy, makes it apparent that there are many unsettled problems connected with theoretical analysis and its application to concrete circumstances. The study which follows is intended for the general reader as well as the specialist, and it s...

Promoting Critical Thinking in Economics Education

Some economist educators are lecturing less, and making use of teaching techniques that engage students more actively. Here we discuss a number of pedagogical strategies that do just that, with the aim of encouraging critical thinking on controversial economic issues. The three specific examples discussed in the paper are 1) a simulation to model the different social locations of various econom...

Sustainable development: environmental limits and the limits of economics