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A Sense of Mission: The Alfred P. Sloan and Russell Sage Foundations' Behavioral Economics Program, 1984–1992

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2012

Floris Heukelom
Floris Heukelom*
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Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands E-mail: f.heukelom@fm.ru.nl
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The main contribution of the Alfred P. Sloan and Russell Sage Foundations' behavioral economics program (1984–1992) was not the resources it provided, which were relatively modest. Instead, the program's contribution lay in catalyzing “a sense of mission” in the collaboration between psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, economist Richard Thaler, and their associates. Partly this reflected the common strategy of American foundations to pick an individual or small group of scientists and stick with them until scientific success had been achieved. But moreover, it was a consequence of the careful management of the program's director Eric Wanner. The various actors involved in the behavioral economics program constructed a new behavioral economic sub-discipline in economics by tapping into existing missionary sentiments in the economic and psychological disciplines, while at the same time actively shaping this sense of mission.

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Science in Context , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , June 2012 , pp. 263 - 286
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Tversky, Amos and Kahneman, Daniel. 1973. “Availability: A Heuristic for Judging Frequency and Probability.” Cognitive Psychology 5:207–232.Google Scholar
Tversky, Amos and Kahneman, Daniel. 1974. “Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases.” Science 185:1124–1131.Google Scholar
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Wright, Patricia, and Kahneman, Daniel. 1971. “Evidence for Alternative Strategies of Sentence Retention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 23:197–213.Google Scholar
Albert Rees Papers, Economists’ Papers Project, Duke University LibrariesGoogle Scholar
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, annual reports, 1980–2000Google Scholar
Eric Wanner, interview with the author, Russell Sage Foundation, New York City, 14 April, 2009Google Scholar
Eric Wanner, interview with the author, Russell Sage Foundation, New York City, 7 April, 2010Google Scholar
James March, email to the author, 4 April, 2010Google Scholar
Richard Thaler, email to the author, 14 January, 2009Google Scholar
Robyn Dawes – interview with the author, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, June 23, 2008Google Scholar
Russell Sage Archives, Rockefeller Foundation Archives, Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, New YorkGoogle Scholar
Timothy Taylor, email to the author, 6 April, 2010Google Scholar
Angner, Erik and Loewenstein, George. Forthcoming. The Foundations of Behavioral Economics. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Ashenfelter, Oorley. 1990. “Albert Rees: Teacher, Scholar, Public Servant.” Journal of Labor Economics 8 (1, Part 2: Essays in Honor of Albert Rees):S1–S3.Google Scholar
Ashenfelter, Orley and Pencavel, John. 2010. “Albert Rees and Chicago School of Economics.” In Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics, edited by Emmet, Ross. E., 311–315Northampton: Edward Elgar.Google Scholar
Baumol, William Jack. 1951. “The Neumann-Morgenstern Utility Index – An Ordinalist View.” Journal of Political Economy 59 (1):61–66.Google Scholar
Bellugi, Ursula and William Brown, Roger. 1971. The Acquisition of Language. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
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Blaug, Mark. 2003. “The Formalist Revolution of the 1950s.” In The History of Economic Thought, edited by Samuels, Warren J., Biddle, Jeff E. and Davis, John B., 395–410. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.Google Scholar
Brown, Roger William. 1965. Social Psychology. New York: Collier Macmillan.Google Scholar
Camerer, Colin and Loewenstein, George. 2004. “Behavioral Economics: Past, Present, Future.” In Advances in Behavioral Economics, edited by Camerer, Colin, Loewenstein, George and Rabin, Matthew, 3–52. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Cochrane, James L. 1979. Industrialism and Industrial Man in Retrospect. Michigan: Ford Foundation.Google Scholar
Cohen-Cole, Jamie. 2007. “Instituting the Science of Mind: Intellectual Economies and Disciplinary Exchange at Harvard's Center for Cognitive Studies.” British Journal for the History of Science 40 (4):567–597.Google Scholar
Crowther-Heyck, Hunter. 2005. Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Crowther-Heyck, Hunter. 2006. “Patrons of the Revolution, Ideals and Institutions in Postwar Behavioral Science.” Isis 97:420–446.Google Scholar
Danziger, Kurt. 1997. Naming the Mind:, How Psychology Found Its Language. London: SAGE Publications.Google Scholar
De Bondt, Werner F. M. and Thaler, Richard H.. 1985. “Does the Stock Market Overreact?” Journal of Finance 40 (3):793–805.Google Scholar
Dowie, Mark. 2001. American Foundations, An Investigative History. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.Google Scholar
Edwards, Ward. 1954. “The Theory of Decision Making.” Psychological Bulletin 51:380–417.Google Scholar
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Emmet, Ross B., ed. 2010. The Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics. Northampton: Edward Elgar.Google Scholar
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Goodwin, Craufurd David. 1998. “The Patrons of Economics in a Time of Transformation.” History of Political Economy Annual supplement:53–81.Google Scholar
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Hammack, David C. and Wheeler, Santon, eds. 1994. Social Science in the Making: Essays on the Russell Sage Foundation, 1907–1972. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.Google Scholar
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Kahneman, Daniel and Tversky, Amos. 1972. “Subjective Probability: A Judgment of Representativeness.” Cognitive Psychology 3:430–454.Google Scholar
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Levy, Clifford J. 1992. “Albert Rees, 71, Labor Economist And an Adviser to President Ford.” New York Times, September 7.Google Scholar
Loewenstein, George and Elster, Jon, eds. 1992. Choice over Time. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.Google Scholar
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Mills, John A. 1998. Control: A History of Behavioral Psychology. New York: New York University Press.Google Scholar
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Rizvi, S. Abu Turab. 2003. “Postwar Neoclassical Microeconomics.” In The History of Economic Thought, edited by Samuels, Warren J., Biddle, Jeff E. and Davis, John B., 377–395. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.Google Scholar
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Scheiding, Thomas D. and Mata, Tiago. 2010. “The Only Disinterested Source of Funds’ – Embedded Science, Lobbying, and the NSF's Patronage of Social Science in the 1980s.” SSRN Working paper 1653482.Google Scholar
Schelling, Thomas Crombie. 1960. The Strategy of Conflict. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.Google Scholar
Schelling, Thomas Crombie. 1969. “Models of Segregation.” American Economic Review 59 (2):488–493.Google Scholar
Senn, Peter R. 1966. “What is ‘behavioral science’? — notes toward a history.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 2 (2):107–122.Google Scholar
Sent, Esther-Mirjam. 2004. “Behavioral Economics: How Psychology Made Its (limited) Way Back into Economics.” History of Political Economy 36 (4):735–760.Google Scholar
Shiller, Robert James. 1989. Market Volatility. Cambridge: MIT Press.Google Scholar
Shiller, Robert James. 2000. Irrational Exuberance. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Simon, Herbert Alexander. 1955. “A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 69 (1):99–118.Google Scholar
Simon, Herbert Alexander. 1959. “Theories of Decision-Making in Economics and Behavioral Sciences.” American Economic Review 49 (1):253–283.Google Scholar
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Thaler, Richard, ed. 1992. The Winners Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life. New York: Free Press.Google Scholar
Thaler, Richard, ed. 1993. Advances in Behavioral Finance. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.Google Scholar
Thaler, Richard. 1991. Quasi Rational Economics. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.Google Scholar
Tversky, Amos. 1967. “Utility Theory and Additivity Analysis of Risky Choices.” Journal of Experimental Psychology 75 (1):27–36.Google Scholar
Tversky, Amos. 1969. “The Intransitivity of Preferences.” Psychological Review 76:31–48.Google Scholar
Tversky, Amos. 1972. “Elimination by Aspects: A Theory of Choice.” Psychological Review 79:218–299.Google Scholar
Tversky, Amos and Kahneman, Daniel. 1971. “Belief in the Law of Small Numbers.” Psychological Bulletin 76:105–110.Google Scholar
Tversky, Amos and Kahneman, Daniel. 1973. “Availability: A Heuristic for Judging Frequency and Probability.” Cognitive Psychology 5:207–232.Google Scholar
Tversky, Amos and Kahneman, Daniel. 1974. “Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases.” Science 185:1124–1131.Google Scholar
Wanner, Eric. 1973. “Do We Understand Sentences from the Outside-in or from the Inside-out?” Daedalus 102 (3 Language as a Human Problem):163–183.Google Scholar
Wanner, Eric. 1974. On Remembering, Forgetting, and Understanding Sentences. The Hague: Mouton.Google Scholar
Wanner, Eric and Gleitman, Lila R., eds. 1982. Language Acquisition, the State of the Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Wanner, Eric and Shiner, Sandra. 1976. “Measuring Transient Memory Load.” Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 15:159–167.Google Scholar
Wanner, Eric, Shiner, Sandra, and Kaplan, Ronald M.. 1975. Garden Paths in Relative Clauses. S.L.: S.N.Google Scholar
Weaver, Warren. 1967. U.S. Philanthropic Foundations: Their History, Structure, Management, and Record. New York: Harper & Row.Google Scholar
Wheeler, Stanton. 1994. “The Commitment to Social Science: A Case Study of Organizational Innovation.” In Social Science in the Making: Essays on the Russell Sage Foundation, 1907–1972, edited by Hammack, David. C. and Wheeler, Stanton, 81–139. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.Google Scholar
Wright, Patricia, and Kahneman, Daniel. 1971. “Evidence for Alternative Strategies of Sentence Retention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 23:197–213.Google Scholar