Maps of Behavioural Economics: Evidence from the Field

2020 ◽  
pp. 026010792092567
Author(s):  
Snorre Sylvester Frid-Nielsen ◽  
Mads Dagnis Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Harvard University ◽  
Behavioural Economics ◽  
University Of California ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The Past ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Interdisciplinary Nature

Behavioural economics is a research agenda, which gradually has moved from the periphery to the centre of the discipline of economics. The rise of behavioural economics has fostered a burgeoning number of studies dealing with the past, present and future of the field. In contrast to these studies which focus on predestinated scholars, outlets and key concepts, this article uses exploratory bibliometric approaches to map behavioural economics. Utilising a novel data set, comprising 104,558 references across 1,872 articles published in the period 1956–2016, the article systematically illuminates the historical foundations, development and interdisciplinary nature of behavioural economics. The article shows (a) the overlooked role of several behavioural psychologists in shaping the field; (b) the influence of the Anglo-Saxon universities, such as University of California Berkeley, Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania; and that (c) behavioural economics mainly draws knowledge from five disciplinary clusters: (a) economics and policy, (b) psychology, (c) pharmacology, (d) health and (e) law.

Vocational Development in Emerging Adulthood

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Pratt ◽  
M. Kyle Matsuba
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Emerging Adult ◽  
Vocational Development ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Concepts

Chapter 6 reviews research on the topic of vocational/occupational development in relation to the McAdams and Pals tripartite personality framework of traits, goals, and life stories. Distinctions between types of motivations for the work role (as a job, career, or calling) are particularly highlighted. The authors then turn to research from the Futures Study on work motivations and their links to personality traits, identity, generativity, and the life story, drawing on analyses and quotes from the data set. To illustrate the key concepts from this vocation chapter, the authors end with a case study on Charles Darwin’s pivotal turning point, his round-the-world voyage as naturalist for the HMS Beagle. Darwin was an emerging adult in his 20s at the time, and we highlight the role of this journey as a turning point in his adult vocational development.

scholarly journals The role of women in the shaping of civic identity in Edwardian Leicester: Edith Gittins and the Anglo-Saxon past of Æthelflæd's fountain. Historical reconstruction and 3D visualization

Urban History ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Rosa Smurra ◽  
Marco Orlandi
Keyword(s):  
3D Visualization ◽  
Civic Identity ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
The Past ◽  
Female Patronage ◽  
And Gender

Abstract This article analyses a case of female patronage in Edwardian Leicester, a drinking fountain surmounted by a statuette dedicated to a female Anglo-Saxon ruler. The bequest, by Edith Gittins (1845–1910), is contextualized within the nineteenth-century perspectives on the past that identified the roots of the English people in the Anglo-Saxon period. The article explores the cultural, social and gender implications of Gittins’ intentions behind the bequest both for women's rights and for the use of the past in the construction of civic identity. These have not hitherto received sufficient attention. In order to address these questions the article exploits the potential of a 3D visualization of the urban setting where the fountain was intended to be erected to help frame the historical inquiry.

The Uses of the University: After Fifty Years

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-479
Author(s):  
Michael A. Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Research University ◽  
The United States ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Clark Kerr ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University

It is now almost a half century since Clark Kerr (1911–2003) delivered the 1963 Edwin L. Godkin Lectures at Harvard University, presenting what was ultimately recognized as one of the most significant and influential ruminations on the nature of higher education in the United States. This sustained reflection on the modern evolution of the research university, ultimately published by Harvard University Press as The Uses of the University (1963), framed discussion and debate regarding the role of what Kerr called “the multiversity” for decades to come. In this endeavor, there was no one at the time better suited to the task. An economist who had served for several years on the faculty at the University of Washington, Seattle, Kerr joined the University of California, Berkeley, in 1945. Appointed Berkeley's first chancellor in 1952, he was the mastermind behind the enormous expansion (in both capacity and excellence) that marked the campus's immediate postwar history. By 1958, as the then legendary Robert Gordon Sproul concluded his 28-year duty as University of California (UC) president, Kerr seemed the obvious and best choice as successor.

The Power of Sex: English Plays by Women, 1958–1988

1991 ◽  
Vol 7 (27) ◽  
pp. 238-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue-Ellen Case
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
Women Playwrights ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
The University

Reading backwards, through the feminist critique, Sue-Ellen Case explores the role of sexuality in women's lives as portrayed in the work of British women playwrights during the past three decades. She illustrates the way in which the oppressive uses of sexuality in the patriarchy, identified by the social movement as rape and pornography, have been dramatized through dramatic narrative and character construction. In contrast to this representation of oppression, she discusses how the liberating role of pleasure and of women reclaiming their own desires provide a revolutionary feminist stage practice, in both heterosexual and lesbian social contexts. Sue-Ellen Case is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, and her works includeFeminism and TheatreandPerforming Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre.

scholarly journals John, Peter (2018). How Far to Nudge? Assessing Behavioural Public Policy. Cheltenham (New Horizons in Public Policy), UK/Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar. 173 Seiten. ISBN: 9781786430564

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1-2019) ◽  
pp. 227-231
Author(s):  
Holger Straßheim
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Initial Phase ◽  
Behavioural Economics ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
The Past ◽  
Evidence Hierarchies ◽  
Cultural Embeddedness

In the past decade, interventions informed by behavioural economics and psychology have spread across jurisdictions and policy areas. Worldwide, more than one hundred organizations and networks are developing and implementing nudges and other behavioural tools. After an initial phase of curiosity, attention is now shifting to the varieties of behavioural public policy, its institutional and cultural embeddedness, its impact and limitations. In his most recent book, Peter John explores some of the crucial questions related to this next phase of nudge. He discusses the role of nudge units, the limitations of behavioural approaches and the ethics of nudge. Most importantly, John proposes a deliberative and reflective version of nudging, nudge plus. Readers might miss an in-depth discussion of pressing problems such as the globalizing influence of behavioural expertise, the imperialism of evidence hierarchies and the political repercussions of nudging. Despite these deficits, the book will inspire both further research and critical debates.

Historical Fact and Exegetical Fiction in the Carolingian Vita S. Sualonis

2003 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynda L. Coon
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Original Source ◽  
The Past ◽  
Primary Object ◽  
Historical Fact

The nineteenth-century editor of Ermenrich of Ellwangen's (ca. 814–74) Vita Sualonis, Oswald Holder-Egger, dismissed the Carolingian hagiographer's sermon on the Anglo-Saxon hermit Sualo as historically unimportant because of its heavy reliance on oral traditions, its turgid prose style, and its clumsy Latin grammar. Holder-Egger found fault with the “ahistoricism” of Ermenrich's Vita—a scholarly stance no doubt influenced by the historicism of his day that privileged “the basic story as the primary object or goal of research.” For the late-nineteenth century, the recovery and reconstruction of an original source (an archetype or Urtext) from which all other derivative and secondary versions sprang was the ultimate task of historical inquiry. Such an Urtext, once unearthed, would then present the true, uncontaminated story of what had happened in the past, and the historian who successfully excavated an Urtype would assume the role of truth teller.

Monastic Historical Culture and the Utility of a Remote Past

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Björn Weiler
Keyword(s):  
Historical Research ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
Historical Culture ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Remote Past

The English Benedictine monk Matthew Paris (c.1200–1259) was one of the most prolific writers of history in medieval Europe. The chapter focuses on Matthew’s Lives of the Two Offas, a semi-fictional account of the Anglo-Saxon kings Offa I and Offa II, the first promising to found, the second actually founding what was to become St Albans Abbey. Matthew reveals much about the practice and limitations of historical research, the relationship between the sacred and the secular, and the role of the past in medieval monastic culture. Particular attention is paid to Matthew’s handling of sources, the role of the public and the varied uses of historical narratives.

scholarly journals The State of Human-Animal Studies

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margo DeMello ◽  
Kenneth Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Animal Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Critical Animal Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Economic Crisis ◽  
Interdisciplinary Nature ◽  
College Programs ◽  
Animal Welfare Science ◽  
Human Animal

AbstractThe growth of human-animal studies (HAS) over the past twenty years can be seen in the explosion of new books, journals, conferences, organizations, college programs, listserves, and courses, both in the United States and throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. We look as well at trends in the field, including the increasing popularity of animal-assisted therapy programs, the rise of new fields like transspecies psychology and critical animal studies, and the importance of animal welfare science. We also discuss the problems continuing to face the field, including the conservative culture of universities, the interdisciplinary nature of the field, the current economic crisis, and general anthropocentrism within academia. We end with a discussion of the tension between the scholarly role and the role of animal advocate, and offer some suggestions for HAS to continue to grow.

Memories of Migration

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-92
Author(s):  
Barbara Laubenthal ◽  
Kevin Myers
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Marginal Status

Based on key concepts of memory studies, this article investigates how immigration is remembered in two different societies: the United Kingdom and Germany. Starting from the assumption that social remembering has the potential to encourage the integration of migrants, we analyze in several case studies how civil society organizations and government actors remember historical immigration processes and how the immigrant past is reflected in popular culture. Our analysis shows that both countries have several factors in common with regard to the role of immigration in collective memory. A common feature is the marginal status accorded to migration and, when it is remembered, the highly restricted role offered to immigrants. However, our studies also reveal that memory can become an important mode for the integration of migrants if it is used as a form of political activism and if organizations proactively use the past to make demands for the incorporation of immigrants.

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