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A psicologia econômica como resposta ao individualismo metodológico

2011; Editora 34; Volume: 31; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0101-31572011000200006

1809-4538

Ruth M. Hofmann, Víctor Peláez,

Economic Theory and Institutions

This paper aims at presenting and discussing some of behavioral models developed by Economic Psychology which is considered an irrelevant field of research for many economists yet.on highlighting the multidisciplinary convergence notably from economists' interests by psychology, it is done emphasis to the discussion of the role played by methodological individualism in the psychological reduction of the homo economicus.Such a reduction has, on the one hand, made harder the conciliation between the individual and the collective level of analysis.on the other hand, it made closer economists and psychologists in the common interest of developing methods capable of understanding the economic behavior under a perspective which allows the integration of the complexity of collective dimension in which the individual makes part.