Behavioural Procedural Models – a multipurpose mechanistic account

In this paper we outline an epistemological defence of what wecall Behavioural Procedural Models (BPMs), which represent the processes of individual decisions that lead to relevant economic patterns as psychologically (rather than rationally) driven. Their general structure, and the way in which the...

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Autores principales:	Leonardo Ivarola, Gustavo Marqués
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Publicado:	Editura ASE Bucuresti 2012
Materias:	Economic explanation Interventionist economic policy Epistemology Economics as a science HB71-74
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c5af076582434587bdb46e05af28cbd92021-12-02T02:06:35ZBehavioural Procedural Models – a multipurpose mechanistic account1843-22981844-8208https://doaj.org/article/c5af076582434587bdb46e05af28cbd92012-05-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.jpe.ro/poze/articole/72.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/1843-2298https://doaj.org/toc/1844-8208In this paper we outline an epistemological defence of what wecall Behavioural Procedural Models (BPMs), which represent the processes of individual decisions that lead to relevant economic patterns as psychologically (rather than rationally) driven. Their general structure, and the way in which they may be incorporated to a multipurpose view of models, where the representational and interventionist goals are combined, is shown. It is argued that BPMs may provide “mechanistic-based explanations” in the sense defended by Hedström and Ylikoski (2010), which involve invariant regularities in Woodward’s sense. Such mechanisms provide a causal sort of explanation of anomalous economic patterns, which allow for extra marketintervention and manipulability in order to correct and improve some key individual decisions. This capability sets the basis for the so called libertarian paternalism (Sunstein and Thaler 2003).Leonardo IvarolaGustavo MarquésEditura ASE BucurestiarticleEconomic explanationInterventionist economic policyEpistemologyEconomics as a scienceHB71-74DEENFRJournal of Philosophical Economics, Vol V, Iss 2, Pp 84-108 (2012)
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spellingShingle	Economic explanation Interventionist economic policy Epistemology Economics as a science HB71-74 Leonardo Ivarola Gustavo Marqués Behavioural Procedural Models – a multipurpose mechanistic account
description	In this paper we outline an epistemological defence of what wecall Behavioural Procedural Models (BPMs), which represent the processes of individual decisions that lead to relevant economic patterns as psychologically (rather than rationally) driven. Their general structure, and the way in which they may be incorporated to a multipurpose view of models, where the representational and interventionist goals are combined, is shown. It is argued that BPMs may provide “mechanistic-based explanations” in the sense defended by Hedström and Ylikoski (2010), which involve invariant regularities in Woodward’s sense. Such mechanisms provide a causal sort of explanation of anomalous economic patterns, which allow for extra marketintervention and manipulability in order to correct and improve some key individual decisions. This capability sets the basis for the so called libertarian paternalism (Sunstein and Thaler 2003).
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Behavioural Procedural Models – a multipurpose mechanistic account

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