Document Type
Syllabi
School
HSB
Department
EFAQ
Course Subject
ECON
Course Number
3980
Course Section
01
Course Title
Topics: Behavioral Economics
Academic Term and Year
Fall 2014
Credits
4.00
Course Description
Goals: To broaden the students’ understanding of economic theory by incorporating knowledge from other social sciences and by expanding traditional economic models to better understand and predict human behavior. Content: Evidence suggests that human beings often do not behave according to the strict rational-actor assumptions inherent in traditional economic theory. This new and growing field of economics seeks to improve our ability to predict and understand phenomena including altruism, trust, reciprocity, and loss-aversion. The course will incorporate economics experiments and game theory methods to examine human behavior. Prerequisites: ECON 1310, ECON 1320, QMBE 1310 or PSY 1340 or MATH 1200, and MATH 1170 or QMBE 1320, or consent of the instructor.
Recommended Citation
Bosley, Stacie, "ECON3980-01.Topics-Behavioral Economics.F14.Bosley,Stacie" (2014). Historic Syllabi -- full text access limited to internal Hamline administrative staff only. 571.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/syllabi/571