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Behavioral Economics in Context: Applications for Development, Inequality & Discrimination, Finance, and Environment

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By Anastasia C. Wilson This module critically examines the assumptions of rationality in the neoclassical model and presents an in-depth discussion of behavioral economics and its applications to fields, such as economic development, social and economic inequality, financial instability, and climate change and environmental sustainability. A basic toolkit of concepts, insights and methods from behavioral […]

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Comparative Economic Systems

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This module introduces the study of comparative economic systems, which is concerned with analyzing differences in economic institutions across societies. It defines different types of economic systems, considering how economic decisions are made and who owns productive assets. The two main types of economic systems—capitalism and socialism—are discussed in some detail along with the historical […]

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