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Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:05:26 +0000

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By: jmm

jmm — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:00:46 +0000

I think strong arguments could be made that ecology is essentially the study of non-human economics.

By: Robin Hanson

Robin Hanson — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:37:48 +0000

Well I suppose we could rename the entire field of “Economics” to be “Human Economics” since it focuses almost entirely on humans. But that would be pretty silly until there is a lot more study of non-human economics.

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By: Hopefully Anonymous

Hopefully Anonymous — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:12:15 +0000

Tim,
Good point, their nomenclature choices and acronyms seem a bit obscurantist.
I guess it already is called behavioral game theory in some academic circles.

By: Tim Tyler

Tim Tyler — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:40:55 +0000

Shouldn’t these ideas be referred to as “human game theory” – or something like that?

It would be nice to distingush theories about how humans actually play games from theories about how best to play games.