id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
work_vceu34cnjnarjnv4oeqhdalhzu	Franz Dietrich	MENTALISM VERSUS BEHAVIOURISM IN ECONOMICS: A PHILOSOPHY-OF-SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE	2016	35	.pdf	application/pdf	13944	932	53	Behaviourism is the view that preferences, beliefs, and other mental states in socialscientific theories are nothing but constructs re-describing people's behaviour. In Section 8, we distinguish mentalism from, and argue against, the radical neuroeconomic view that socio-economic behaviour should be explained in terms of In essence, Gul and Pesendorfer hold that (positive) economics should be the science of choice behaviour, and that its evidence base, ontology of the world, and formal In line with psychological behaviourism, Gul and Pesendorfer argue that the only evidence that should be used to test economic theories is evidence about people's choice content of any economic theory consists solely in its choice-behavioural implications; two But even if the evidence base of economic theories were restricted to observable choice theory in economics is restricted to agents' choice behaviour. our best theories of economic decision-making are committed to certain mental-state	./cache/work_vceu34cnjnarjnv4oeqhdalhzu.pdf	./txt/work_vceu34cnjnarjnv4oeqhdalhzu.txt