Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/30435 
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Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2727
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Four types of economics” relevant for institutional analysis are distinguished: Standard Neoclassical Economics; Socio-Economics or Social Economics; New Institutional Economics; and Psychological Economics (often misleadingly called Behavioural Economics). The paper argues that an extension of Neoclassical Economics with elements from other social sciences (including political science, sociology, psychology, law and anthropology) is fruitful to explain institutions because it allows us to maintain the strength of that approach. Social Economics can play an important role helping to overcome the limitations of Neoclassics. However, it should become more concrete, integrate what is useful in Neoclassics, and should seriously engage in empirical research.
Subjects: 
Institutional Economics
Neoclassics
Psychological Economics
Behavioural Economics
institutions
JEL: 
H77
P16
Z11
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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