TY - JOUR
T1 - Shaun Hargreaves Heap’s Behavioural Political Economy
T2 - Implications for Politics and Public Policy
AU - John, Peter
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
©2024 P. John.
PY - 2024/5/8
Y1 - 2024/5/8
N2 - Shaun Hargreaves Heap is a critic of the assumption of instrumental rationality, which is still commonly applied in mainstream economics. His view of human reasoning incorporates emotions, the personal assessment of life projects, intuitions, and preference reversal, often occurring alongside instrumental calculation. As a result, his work has breadth, a critical outlook, and is highly interdisciplinary, appealing to many different kinds of scholars, whether behavioural economists, public policy analysts, political theorists, or political scientists. Using laboratory experiments, he and his collaborators often produce surprising and counterintuitive findings, challenging conventional wisdoms, such as the benefits and costs of group membership. Above all, his work concerns institutions of various kinds, whose design needs to take into account the multidimensional character of human beings. With effective principles to guide them, policy-makers may introduce more effective interventions and thereby promote human flourishing.
AB - Shaun Hargreaves Heap is a critic of the assumption of instrumental rationality, which is still commonly applied in mainstream economics. His view of human reasoning incorporates emotions, the personal assessment of life projects, intuitions, and preference reversal, often occurring alongside instrumental calculation. As a result, his work has breadth, a critical outlook, and is highly interdisciplinary, appealing to many different kinds of scholars, whether behavioural economists, public policy analysts, political theorists, or political scientists. Using laboratory experiments, he and his collaborators often produce surprising and counterintuitive findings, challenging conventional wisdoms, such as the benefits and costs of group membership. Above all, his work concerns institutions of various kinds, whose design needs to take into account the multidimensional character of human beings. With effective principles to guide them, policy-makers may introduce more effective interventions and thereby promote human flourishing.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85194029095&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1561/105.00000185
DO - 10.1561/105.00000185
M3 - Article
SN - 2326-6201
VL - 11
SP - 165
EP - 181
JO - Review of Behavioral Economics
JF - Review of Behavioral Economics
IS - 2
M1 - 2
ER -