在过去的30年中，心理学家和经济学家联手研究了人们如何处理信息并实际做出决定，而不是研究如果他们完全理性和自私，他们将如何做出决定。这个新的协作领域，即行为经济学，使人们了解了人们的决策如何偏离“最佳”选择以及这种偏离对消费者，经理，公司和政策的后果。<br> <br>沃顿商学院将使您对业务的运作方式以及如何以新的方式看待周围世界有深刻的了解。从对财务概念的研究到对组织管理的深入了解等等，您将学习如何为您选择的任何行业，任何国家，任何职业解决问题。沃顿商学院的学者以严谨和相关性而闻名。我们的课程不仅涵盖最
This new collaborative field, behavioral economics, has provided an understanding of how people's decisions deviate from optimal choices and the consequences of such deviations for consumers, managers, firms, and policy. This joint concentration between the Operations, Information, and Decisions Department and the Business Economics and Public Policy Department explores the behavioral aspects of economics and decision making. This concentration provides students with the opportunity to develop an understanding of (a) the rational actor model, (b) modifications to that model that reflect the psychology of human behavior, and (c) implications of those modifications for decision-makers, markets, and public policy.