ECON 4660 - Behavioral Economics

(SBA-AS)

Spring. 4 credits.

Prerequisite: ECON 3030.

Staff.

Introduces students to behavioral economics, an emerging subfield of economics that incorporates insights from psychology and other social sciences into economics. Examines evidence on how human behavior systematically departs from the standard assumptions of economics, and also investigates attempts by behavioral economists to improve economic analyses.