Human cognition is often biased, from judgments of the time of impact of approaching
objects all the way through to estimations of social outcomes in the future. We propose these …

Providing an account of the role of informal institutions in Chinese rural development, this
book, based on a decade of fieldwork of village life in the Chinese countryside, puts forth a …

Behavioral economists increasingly argue that violations of rationality axioms provide a new
rationale for paternalism–to “de-bias” individuals who exhibit errors, biases and other …

Hayek's seminal contribution to theoretical neurosciences, The Sensory Order (1952)
remains neglected in current efforts at integrating the neurosciences, psychology and …

This paper proposes a new framework of 'behavioural innovation economics' as a synthesis
of behavioural economics and innovation economics in the context of choice under novelty …

Abstract Emil Durkheim published The Division of Labour in Society as part of his strategy to
create a place for sociology as a science independent from economics. The book describes …

Papaioannou offers a radical new reading of Hayek in the 21st century, arguing that the
moral dimension of his political theory is based on the methodological implications of an …

In the following pages we will try to give a broad overview of some ontological problems of
Evolutionary Economics. This cannot be done but in a simple and sketchy way, without …

Functional explanations in linguistics are interestingly parallel to evolutionary explanations
in biology. In both cases, adaptation is supposed to result from a process of replication …

This paper carries out a first-of-its-kind evaluation of the effectiveness of insider dealing
policy in the UK focusing on the civil regime's penalty-setting framework against individuals …