Let's Talk About Behavioral Economics
All the research that built up to, and is restated in Thinking Fast and Slow is an intellectual revolution that doesn't come along once a generation, but more like something we would expect to see across hundreds of years. Some very basic assumptions we made about thinking that were pervasive in economics, political science, international relations, and more mundane things like every day work a or interpersonal interactions have to be discarded.
We are constantly and quickly creating our judgments in the world around us through a set of mental heuristics, or shortcuts that we take in order to be fast enough to function. We also have the ability to do the hard work of serious deductive reasoning (among other slow mental processes). We live in a mental world between these two sorts of processes that is quite different that what was supposed by philosophers and economists for hundreds of years.
One of the key questions that we here at Reframous.com are going to come back to again and again is what does this whole new field of behavioral economics mean when it gets applied to things like politics, justice or moral theory.
Today's open question that we will dive back into in more depth is pretty simple: What is the relationship between the mental heuristics that Kahneman describes and the more intuitions that we use as premises in most of our arguments about justice.
Also if you decide to buy the book for yourself please consider doing so through our affiliate account:
We are constantly and quickly creating our judgments in the world around us through a set of mental heuristics, or shortcuts that we take in order to be fast enough to function. We also have the ability to do the hard work of serious deductive reasoning (among other slow mental processes). We live in a mental world between these two sorts of processes that is quite different that what was supposed by philosophers and economists for hundreds of years.
One of the key questions that we here at Reframous.com are going to come back to again and again is what does this whole new field of behavioral economics mean when it gets applied to things like politics, justice or moral theory.
Today's open question that we will dive back into in more depth is pretty simple: What is the relationship between the mental heuristics that Kahneman describes and the more intuitions that we use as premises in most of our arguments about justice.
Also if you decide to buy the book for yourself please consider doing so through our affiliate account:
Comments
Post a Comment
Please keep it civil.