Reconciling Normative and Behavioural Economics
A Conference to be held at University of East Anglia, UK
April 3-5 2008
Conference Overview
The conference will bring together researchers with a shared interest in re-anchoring theoretical and/or applied normative economics in a descriptive economics that is cognizant of developments in behavioural economics. But beyond this, it is hoped that the conference participants should represent the widest possible diversity of approaches...
What we have in mind is not a workshop at which researchers following a common approach exchange ideas, but a frank and constructive debate about the potentialities of different ways of tackling the reconciliation problem. For this reason, the conference format is designed to maximise the scope for discussion between the participants: the number of participants will be kept small, presentations will be held in a seminar-type (rather than lecture-type) setting, and (in addition to timetabled meals and breaks) there will be an ‘open session’ for exchange and development of ideas.
We expect to have nine to ten invited speakers and up to eight further papers to be accepted from open-call submissions. The invited papers, and a selection of the submitted papers, will be revised for publication as an edited volume or as a special issue of an established journal.
