What can be learned from behavioural economics for environmental policy?

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Behavioural economics attracted attention from environmental economists: it should help to understand why people do not respond to environmental policy measures, based on neoclassical assumptions, as predicted by theory. Moreover, understanding motives and driving forces behind pro-social, pro-environmental and cooperative behaviour should help to improve environmental policy design. The aim of this paper is a critical discussion of the way how this branch of research is interpreting the explanatory power and the normative (policy) implications of behavioural economics.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Jena Economic Research Papers ; No. 2013-020

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economic Methodology ; Analysis of Collective Decision-Making: General ; Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services; Biodiversity Conservation; Bioeconomics; Industrial Ecology ; Environmental Economics: Government Policy
• Subject: behavioural economics ; environmental economics ; policy design ; methodology

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Pasche, Markus
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics
• (where): Jena
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/85031
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET