|
Incoerenza Dinamica ed Autocontrollo: Proposta
per un'Analisi Interdisciplinare di Davide Dragone
Abstract
In the last 25 years, a vast empirical literature has seriously challenged
many assumptions on which the standard microeconomic approach is based.
Inspired by this evidence, behavioural economics suggests that a research
program that integrates the economic, psychological and neuro-scienti.c
literature can provide a theory of human decision-making with stronger
descriptive, predictive and normative power. This interdisciplinary
approach does not necessarily imply abandoning the neoclassical modelling
tools and losing analytical tractability. As an example, the evo-lution
of the economic theory on intertemporal choice is presented, show-ing
that some standard economic assumptions can be viewed as special cases
in which self-control and dynamic consistency are always guaranteed.
Keywords: Intertemporal choice; Time inconsistency; Self-control;
Dual models; Psychology; Neurosciences.
|