Reconciling normative and behavioural economics

‘Normative Behavioral Economics’ Revisited: Toward a Behavioral Normative Economics

A little more than a decade ago, Nathan Berg asked the question why behavioral economics had not yet inspired a reorientation of normative economics. Given the ever rising interest in the new, psychologically informed economics, the present paper will outline the way reasoning about the normative implications of behavioral economics has developed since Berg raised the issue. We argue that behav...

Normative behavioral economics

This paper addresses the question of why, in spite of its recent success, behavioral economics does not influence most discussions about how economic policy ought to be made. Failing to penetrate into contemporary discourse on leading policy issues is a serious problem, because behavioral techniques often point to policy prescriptions that are at odds with the prescriptions which follow from mo...

Reconciling ecology and economics to conserve bumblebees

Behavioural Public Economics : Extended

Alós-Ferrer and Granić (2012) present results from two *eld experiments on electoral reform, which were carried out alongside o-cial state and federal elections in Germany, in 2008 and 2009, respectively. Electors who had voted in the o-cial elections, which used the mixed-member proportional representation (MMPR) system, were given the opportunity to vote in an experimental election using the ...

Reconciling resource economics and ecological economics: the economics of sustainability and resilience

Cross disciplinary dialogue between economics and ecology has within economics centered on the two subdisciplines of bioeconomics and ecological economics. This division in economics reflects the division in ecology between population and systems ecologists. Recent developments in ecology are aimed at a more integrated approach to ecologic al research. One example of such an approach is that of...