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摘要

Ten papers explore the links between economics and psychology from a historical perspective, identifying episodes involving contact between the two disciplines and investigating context and contemporaries' perceptions. Papers discuss moral accounting in the Victorian period (Harro Maas); the war of the ghosts—Alfred Marshall, Thorstein Veblen, and Frederic Bartlett (Simon J. Cook and Tiziana Foresti); why there is a great divide between economics and psychology (Craufurd D. Goodwin); behaviorism and control in the history of economics and psychology (Jose Edwards); implementation rationality—the nexus of psychology and economics at the RAND Logistics Systems Laboratory, 1956-66 (Judy L. Klein); how psychology fails to trump the multiyear structural development plan—Albert Hirschman's largely frustrated efforts to place the "ability to make and carry out development decisions" at the center of the development economics of the late 1950s and the 1960s (Neil De Marchi); measuring the economizing mind in the 1940s and 1950s—the Mosteller-Nogee and Davidson-Suppes-Siegel experiments to measure the utility of money (Ivan Moscati); the Sidney Siegel tradition— the divergence of behavioral and experimental economics at the end of the 1980s (Andrej Svorencik); the economics of motivations—Tibor Scitovsky and Daniel Berlyne (Marina Bianchi); and theoretical behaviorism, economic theory, and choice (John Staddon). Bianchi is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and Law at the University of Cassino. De Marchi is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Duke University. Index.