Fairy-Tale Economics
Scarcity, Risk, Choice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6092288 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dorothy Noyes (0000-0001-6134-0533, corresponding author), Dorothy Noyes Dorothy Noyes |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Narrative Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2169-0235 • E-ISSN: 2169-0251 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.13110/narrcult.2.1.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W1258738937 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Economists tell stories about how people behave. The setup is always the same: an actor is confronted with a choice and must make a decision. Should he (it’s usually a he) take a quick, assured return or wait for a less certain but larger payofff? Should he place his trust in another actor and collaborate for a larger joint profit, or act alone to make sure he is not cheated, so that at any rate he comes away with something? When he’s played the same game for a long time, will he keep paying attention as the next decision comes
Conformity · Economics · Microeconomics · Political science · Positive economics · Rationality · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |