Economics and Psychology: Lessons For Our Own Day From the Early Twentieth Centuly
研究了20世纪早期经济学与心理学的历史关系,当时心理学家和制度经济学家批评经济学不科学,经济学家的回应是错误地放弃理解并声称遵循行为主义,这种独立幻觉延续至今。
This paper studies the historical roots of the relationship between economics and psychology, and places recurring controversies between these disciplines in the context of the relationship between economics and the other human sciences, especially sociology. We focus on the formative years of contemporary economics, the early twentieth century, when psychologists and institutionalist economists attacked the unscientific nature of economics. Economists responded by (mistakenly) renouncing verstehen and claiming adherence to behaviorism, rather than by actually addressing the institutionalist critique. Behaviorist economics declared independence from psychology, and by analogy, from the other human sciences. Our illusion of independence continues to this day.