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Beyond market behavior: Evolved cognition and folk political economic beliefs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2018

Talbot M. Andrews  and
Andrew W. Delton
Talbot M. Andrews
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Stony Brook University, Center for Behavioral Political Economy, Stony Brook, NY 11794. talbot.andrews@stonybrook.eduandrew.delton@stonybrook.eduhttps://you.stonybrook.edu/talbotmandrews/www.andrewdelton.com
Andrew W. Delton
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Stony Brook University, Center for Behavioral Political Economy, Stony Brook, NY 11794. talbot.andrews@stonybrook.eduandrew.delton@stonybrook.eduhttps://you.stonybrook.edu/talbotmandrews/www.andrewdelton.com
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Abstract

Boyer & Petersen (B&P) lay out a compelling theory for folk-economic beliefs, focusing on beliefs about markets. However, societies also allocate resources through mechanisms involving power and group decision-making (e.g., voting), through the political economy. We encourage future work to keep folk political economic beliefs in mind, and sketch an example involving pollution and climate change mitigation policy.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e160
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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