behavioralist

The message that the behavioral finance guys have for investors is that yes, you can beat the market, but -- for reasons that are essential to the whole behavioralist case -- you almost certainly won't.

The Efficient Markets Hypothesis: Act As If It's True, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Heart is a rational actor assumption, subject to standard behavioralist critiques of rational actor models.

IPSC: trademark and the consumer Rebecca Tushnet 2009

Heart is a rational actor assumption, subject to standard behavioralist critiques of rational actor models.

Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

One problem with such arguments, of course, is that it takes a theory to beat a theory, and no behavioralist theory yet advanced does a better job of explaining the vast bulk of stock market phenomena than the ECMH.

Fama vs. Thaler, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

I am sympathetic with those who challenge behavioralist on ecological validity.

Revenge of the Game Theorist, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Everywhere, it seems that people with disabilities are in some sort of sick behavioralist experiment involving wire mothers.

Why to choose "Cripple" with your guidance counselor, some gifts, my day! Elizabeth McClung 2008

In a fortuitous accident of timing, Sunstein and his friend Richard Thaler have just published a book that makes the behavioralist case in nontechnical language: Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness.

Economics: Which Way for Obama? Cassidy, John 2008

But, for a century, in order to establish itself as a scientific discipline, psychology turned away from these profound issues – in favor of behavioralist, positivist paradigm of thought.

Two New Books on Consciousness William Harryman 2007

He's been a dog trainer and a behavioralist for more than two decades.

CNN Transcript Aug 27, 2007 2007

Wesgpc – Those could all be viewed as symptoms of depression, at least from a behavioralist point of view.

Firedoglake » A Priest, a Progressive, and and A TheoCon Walk into a Bar… 2006