Biography
Robert Sugden is a Professor in the School of Economics. His research uses a combination of theoretical, experimental and philosophical methods to investigate issues in welfare economics, social choice, choice under uncertainty, the foundations of decision and game theory, the methodology of economics, and the evolution of social conventions. He is the author or editor of eight books, of which the most widely-read are Principles of Practical Cost-benefit Analysis (1978, with Alan Williams) and Economics of Rights, Co-operation and Welfare (1986 and 2004).
He is the author of over 100 papers in refereed journals including American Economic Review, American Political Science Review, Econometrica, Economic Journal, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Philosophy, Review of Economic Studies, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. He is one of the few UK economists included in the ISI Highly Cited list.
All Publications
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(2016)
Preference purification and the inner rational agent: A critique of the conventional wisdom of behavioural welfare economics
in Journal of Economic Methodology
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(2016)
'On the Econ within': a reply to Daniel Hausman
in Journal of Economic Methodology
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pp. 33-37
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(2016)
The emergence of reciprocally beneficial cooperation
in Theory and Decision
80.
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(2016)
Do markets reveal preferences or shape them?
in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
122.
pp. 1-16
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Backward Induction Foundations of the Shapley Value
in Econometrica
84.
pp. 2265–2280
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Do people really want to be nudged towards healthy lifestyles?
in International Review of Economics
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(2015)
Opportunity and preference learning: A reply to Christian Schubert
in Economics and Philosophy
31.
pp. 297-303
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(2015)
On ‘common-sense ontology’: A comment on the paper by Frank Hindriks and Francesco Guala
in Journal of Institutional Economics
11.
pp. 489-492
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(2015)
Looking for a psychology for the inner rational agent
in Social Theory and Practice
41.
pp. 579-598
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(2015)
Consumers’ surplus when individuals lack integrated preferences: A development of some ideas from Dupuit
in European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
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pp. 1042-1063
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(2014)
How portable is level-0 behavior? A test of level-k theory in game with non-neutral frames
in Econometrica
82.
pp. 1133–1151
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Common reasoning in games: a Lewisian analysis of common knowledge of rationality
in Economics and Philosophy
30.
pp. 285-329
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Efficiency, equality and labelling: an experimental investigation of focal points in explicit bargaining
in American Economic Review
104.
pp. 3256-3287
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(2014)
Team reasoning and intentional cooperation for mutual benefit
in Journal of Social Ontology
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pp. 143–166
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(2013)
Focal points in tacit bargaining problems: Experimental evidence
in European Economic Review
59.
pp. 167-188
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The Conflict Between Conservation and Recreation When Visitors Dislike Crowding: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of the Spatial Distribution of Recreational Beach Users
in Environmental and Resource Economics
55.
pp. 447-465
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(2013)
The Behavioural Economist and the Social Planner: To Whom Should Behavioural Welfare Economics Be Addressed?
in Inquiry
56.
pp. 519-538
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Not all anchors are created equal
in Journal of Economic Psychology
39.
pp. 21-31
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Reclaiming Virtue Ethics for Economics
in Journal of Economic Perspectives
27.
pp. 141-164
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(2013)
How fictional accounts can explain
in Journal of Economic Methodology
20.
pp. 237-243
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Key Research Interests
Funded projects completed since 1 January 2001
Understanding Focal Points in Bargaining Situations, (grant RES-000-22-3322), on which I am Co Investigator and my colleague Anders Poulsen is Principal -Investigator.
Reconciling Normative and Behavioural Economics, Professorial Fellowship awarded by Economic and Social Research Council, January 2006-March 2009.
What is the Value to Society of a QALY?, NHS R&D Research Methodology Programme and National Institute for Clinical Excellence, 2004-2007, (with colleagues at UEA, the Universities of Newcastle upon Tyne and Aberdeen, and the National Centre for Social Research).
Innovation in Decision Support, Programme 3 of ESRC Programme for Environmental Decision Making, 2001-2004 and 2006-2007, (with Ian Bateman, Brett Day and Graham Loomes).
The Role of Experimental Methods in Economics, Leverhulme Trust, September 2002-August 2005 (with Robin Cubitt, Graham Loomes, Peter Moffatt and Chris Starmer).
Leverhulme Personal Research Professorship, Leverhulme Trust, February 1998 - January 2003.
TRANS-TALK, participation in thematic network of European Union Programme ‘Competitive and Sustainable Growth’, January 2000-June 2001.
Working papers
The Representation of Alienable and Inalienable Rights: Games in Transition Function Form (with Ben McQuillin).
Common Fate, Game Harmony and Contributions to Public Goods: Experimental Evidence (with Luca Corazzini)
Is Happiness a Matter for Governments? A Millian Perspective on Layard’s “New Science” (with Joshua Chen-Yuan Teng)
A Predator-Prey Model of Cooperation in Anonymous Well-Mixed Populations (with Sergio Beraldo)
The Reasoning-Based Expected Utility Procedure (with Robin Cubitt)
Common Reasoning in Games (with Robin Cubitt).
Market Simulation and the Provision of Public Goods: A Non-paternalistic Response to Anomalies in Environmental Evaluation.
Opportunity as Mutual Advantage.
Spurious Complexity and Common Standards in Markets for Consumer Goods (with Alexia Gaudeul).
Can Economics Be Founded on “Indisputable Facts of Experience”? Lionel Robbins and the pioneers of neoclassical economics.
The Willingness to Pay–Willingness to Accept Gap, the “Endowment Effect”, Subject Misconceptions, and Experimental Procedures for Eliciting Valuations: Comment’ (with Andrea Isoni and Graham Loomes).
Is there a Distinction between Morality and Convention?
Explaining Preference Reversal with Third-generation Prospect Theory (with Ulrich Schmidt and Chris Starmer).
Preference Reversals and Disparities between Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept in Repeated Markets (with Graham Loomes and Chris Starmer).
Ranking Versus Choice in the Elicitation of Preferences (with Ian Bateman, Brett Day, Graham Loomes and Chris Starmer).
The Nature of Salience Revisited: Cognitive Hierarchy Theory versus Team Reasoning. (with Nicholas Bardsley, Judith Mehta and Chris Starmer).
Fraternity: Why the Market Need not be a Morally Free Zone, (with Luigino Bruni).
Credible Worlds, Capacities and Social Mechanisms.
The Changing Relationship between Theory and Experiment in Economics.
Preference Uncertainty and Status Quo Effects in Consumer Choice, (with Graham Loomes and Shepley Orr).