The road not taken: How psychology was removed from economics, and how it might be brought back

Economic Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 516, 2007, Pages 146-173

  Bruni, Luigino ^a   Sugden, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IDEOLOGY; NEOCLASSICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY; RATIONALIZATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 33846352506     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02005.x     Document Type: Article

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