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Pisces Economicus: The Fish as Economic Man

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  • Boulier, Bryan L.
  • Goldfarb, Robert S.

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Since a paradigmatic approach is judged in part by the range of phenomena it can explain, neoclassical microeconomists have no doubt gained assurance about the power of their paradigm by the invasion of economics into a number of related fields, what Hirschleifer (1985) has referred to as the “expanding domain of economics.” Moreover, even beyond these excursions into the provinces of other social sciences concerned with human behavior, economics has also recently expanded into the analysis of animal behavior (cf. Battalio, Kagel, and McDonald, 1985). This development not only adds more scientific prestige to the approach, but allows economists to use research techniques developed in more experimentally oriented disciplines.

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  • Boulier, Bryan L. & Goldfarb, Robert S., 1991. "Pisces Economicus: The Fish as Economic Man," Economics and Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, vol. 7(1), pages 83-86, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:ecnphi:v:7:y:1991:i:01:p:83-86_00
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    1. Bernard Saffran, 1992. "Recommendations for Further Reading," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 6(1), pages 195-200, Winter.
    2. Panos KALIMERIS, 2018. "Ecce Homo-Economicus? The Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide syndrome of the economic man in the context of natural resources scarcity and environmental externalities," The Journal of Philosophical Economics, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, The Journal of Philosophical Economics, vol. 12(1), pages 89-111, November.

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