经济学发展的新方向（New directions of economic development）.docVIP

经济学发展的新方向（New directions of economic development） New directions of economic development --- full text of the speech (according to the recording and translation, the speaker himself and the copyright CEIBS). If you need to reprint, you must contact the CEIBS marketing and public relations department Xi Kai Yuan [US] Director, Center for behavioral science research, CEIBS Tenured professor, School of management, University of Chicago December 26, 2002 In 2002, Professor Kahneman of Princeton University and Smith of George Mason University jointly won the Nobel prize in economics. Professor Kahneman, a psychologist, and his collaborator, Tverskey, have proved in many ways the mistakes of some basic theories of traditional economics. My speech focuses on the theory of Kahneman and its implications, as well as new economics, the revision of traditional economics, and the new direction of economic development. I mainly talk about the difference between the new and conventional economics in the following three aspects: first, the assumption of human behavior, the traditional economics that people are rational, and the new economics that people is rational. Secondly, in the theoretical model, the traditional economics is normative, and the new economics is descriptive. Finally, from the purpose of the study is to research the traditional economics to increase peoples wealth, but I believe that a new direction of research is to study how to increase peoples happiness fundamentally, here is a generalized concept of happiness. New directions in traditional economics Hypothesis: man is rational, man is bounded rationality Theory: normative; descriptive Research goal: wealth, happiness in broad sense Reason and bounded rationality The traditional economics thinks that people are rational, a rational, traditional economics has several basic assumptions, such as traditional economics believe that, for good things and bad things, people are always willing to pay more money for goo