Once challengers to the economic orthodoxy of rational choice\, behavioural economists have now established a respected status within mainstream economics. Behavioural economists receive substantial funding\, space in top journals\, positions in elite departments\, prestigious prizes and appointments for institutionally influential posts\, as well as increasing attention from the mainstream media and policy makers. Historical and bibliometric analyses confirm this "mainstreaming" of behavioural economics.
\nSeveral questions regarding behavioural economics' identity have become salient\, as it entered mainstream\, finding applications in subfields as diverse as finance\, development\, education\, labour\, mechanism design\, real estate\, environment\, and welfare. What is\, if any\, the core of this research program? How exactly is behavioural economics related to received economic theories to which it - at least at the outset - vigorously objected? Has it decisively estranged itself from psychology\, from which its significant part originated? Or is it still evolving under the interdisciplinary influences of behavioural and cognitive sciences? What kind of normative investigations inspired by behavioural economics inform policy recommendations?
\nThese are the open questions to which practicing behavioural economists themselves provide diverging answers. This two-day workshop thus critically examines diverse scientific principles and practices in behavioural economics\, its (sub)disciplinary identity\, normative implications and multiple ways of integrating psychological and other relevant scientific findings with economics. We welcome contributions from multiple approaches including (but not limited to):
\nQuestions we will address include (but are not limited to):
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