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- Title
Marginal to the Revolution: The Curious Relationship between Economics and the Behavioral Sciences Movement in Mid-Twentieth-Century America.
- Authors
Pooley, Jefferson; Solovey, Mark
- Abstract
The essay discusses the relationship between the study of economics and psychology throughout U.S. history, exploring why the field of behavioral economics did not emerge in the post-World War II era in the U.S. The author relates this relationship to the work of the Ford Foundation's Behavioral Sciences Program (BSP), analyzing its contribution to the development of the behavioral sciences movement.
- Subjects
BEHAVIORAL economics; HISTORY of economics -- 20th century; HISTORY of psychology -- 20th century; PSYCHOLOGY; FORD Foundation; ECONOMICS &; psychology; ECONOMICS
- Publication
History of Political Economy, 2010, Vol 42, p199
- ISSN
0018-2702
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1215/00182702-2009-077