• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: What can be learned from behavioural economics for environmental policy?
  • Contributor: Pasche, Markus [Author]
  • Published: Jena: Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics, 2013
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Q58 ; environmental economics ; methodology ; D0 ; D70 ; behavioural economics ; Q57 ; policy design ; B41
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  • Description: 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.
  • Access State: Open Access