Behavioral economics uses an understanding of human psychology to account for why people deviate from rational action when they’re making decisions. In the model of rational action assumed by ...

In the late 1800s, one of the most enduring fictional characters of all time first appeared on the scene. No, I am not talking about Sherlock Holmes or Oliver Twist, but a less well-known though ...

The roadmap to making meaningful change in your personal or professional life can be found in the discipline of behavioral economics. Historians trace the “custom of making new year’s resolutions” ...

As one of the social sciences, economics studies how the choices we make as individuals—as consumers and producers, as savers and investors, as managers and employees, as citizens and voters—combine ...

Michelle Baddeley is Director and Research Professor at the Institute for Choice, University of South Australia. Today, it seems as though everyone is talking about behavioral economics. Governments ...

In experiential education, the student learns through experience by observing a concept or phenomenon and applying this knowledge in a real-world context. A research project conducted by undergraduate ...

To view courses offered by semester go to the on-line schedule, descriptions of all economics courses are available through the Catalog. The Open Course List shows which courses still have open seats.

Gig or sharing economy platforms such as Uber, Airbnb, Grubhub and Taskrabbit are rapidly redefining the meaning of work, innovation and prosperity in post-industrial capitalist economies. How has ...

Ana María Rojas Méndez is a behavioral economist with the Mind, Behavior & Development Unit (eMBeD), at the World Bank’s Development Impact (DIME). Her work integrates behavioral sciences, development ...

Behavioral economics uses an understanding of human psychology to account for why people deviate from rational action when they’re making decisions. In the model of rational action assumed by ...