Behavioral Economics and the Atheoretical Style
批评行为经济学中流行的非理论化风格，即用轶事式成本收益模型和扭曲函数形式来传播行为主题，主张加强抽象理论以发挥其变革潜力。
Behavioral economics is widely perceived to be part of the profession’s shift away from a culture that places abstract theory at its center. I present a critical discussion of the atheoretical style with which “behavioral” themes are often disseminated: a purely anecdotal cost-benefit modeling in pieces that target a wide audience of academic economists, and the practice of capturing psychological forces by distorting familiar functional forms. I argue that the subject of “ psychology and economics” is intrinsically foundational, and that a heavier dose of abstract theorizing is essential for it to realize its transformative potential.