Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
Behavioural economics
French translation:
Économie comportementale
Feb 7, 2011 00:56
13 yrs ago
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English term
behavioural economics
GBK
English to French
Bus/Financial
Economics
Definition from
The Economist:
A branch of ECONOMICS that concentrates on explaining the economic decisions people make in practice, especially when these conflict with what conventional economic theory predicts they will do. Behaviourists try to augment or replace traditional ideas of economic rationality (homo economicus) with decision-making models borrowed from psychology. According to psychologists, people are disproportionately influenced by a fear of feeling regret and will often forgo benefits even to avoid only a small risk of feeling they have failed. They are also prone to cognitive dissonance, often holding on to a belief plainly at odds with new evidence, usually because the belief has been held and cherished for a long time. Then there is anchoring: people are often overly influenced by outside suggestion. People apparently also suffer from status quo bias: they are willing to take bigger gambles to maintain the status quo than they would be to acquire it in the first place.
Traditional UTILITY theory assumes that people make individual decisions in the context of the big picture. But psychologists have found that they generally compartmentalise, often on superficial grounds. They then make choices about things in one particular mental compartment without taking account of the implications for things in other compartments.
There is lots of evidence that people are persistently and irrationally overconfident. They are also vulnerable to hindsight bias: once something happens they overestimate the extent to which they could have predicted it. Many of these traits are captured in PROSPECT THEORY, which is at the heart of much of behavioural economics.
Example sentences:
Behavioral economics blossomed from the realization that neither point of view was correct. (Library Economics Liberty)
Behavioral economics explains why we procrastinate, buy, borrow, and grab chocolate on (Harvard Magazine)
Economics orthodoxy may look down on behavioral economics, but it's the most important development in economics in a long time. ( The Christian Science Monitor.)
Proposed translations
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5 +3 | Économie comportementale |
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4 -1 | Économie béhaviorale |
Pierre Saint-Laurent
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Économie comportementale
Definition from
Wikipedia:
L'économie comportementale est un champ de la science économique qui étudie le comportement des êtres humains dans les situations économiques.
Example sentences:
L'économie comportementale est un domaine de connaissance qui étudie comment les individus et les institutions font leurs choix économiques, et les conséquence de ceux-ci. (pagesperso-orange)
L'économie comportementale est un champ récent de la science économique qui étudie le comportement des êtres humains dans des situations économiques variées. (agro-montpellier.fr)
Peer comment(s):
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leseach
: Largement attesté depuis les années 1970, et surtout depuis une dizaine d'années
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agree |
sylvan pradel
: definitely.... yes. Again, a no-brainer, but it helps keep building up a search data base.
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agree |
Allison Wright (X)
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Économie béhaviorale
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Note added at 13 hrs (2011-02-07 13:57:10 GMT)
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Je retire toute participation à ce forum vu le négativisme et l'absemce d'alternatives offertes par les intervenants, qui se contenten de se sentir agressés par une suggestion. Qu'ils mettent de l'avent leurs propres contributions.
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Note added at 13 hrs (2011-02-07 13:59:05 GMT)
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Je retire toute participation à ce forum vu le négativisme et l'absence d'alternatives offertes par les intervenants, qui se contentent de se sentir agressés par une suggestion. Qu'ils mettent de l'avant leurs propres contributions, comme l'a d'ailleurs fait un collègue que je remercie et salue.
Definition from
own experience or research:
L'économie béhaviorale prétend expliquer les aspects irrationnels du comportement des acteurs du monde financier.
Example sentences:
none (none)
Peer comment(s):
disagree |
Jean-Claude Gouin
: JAMAIS DE LA VIE! Voici mes suggestions: l'économie compartementale, la psychologie économique, la psychoéconomie, la rationalité économique. À cause du manque d'espace, je ne peux vous fournir la définition d'économie compartementale ...
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David Salas
: Désolé, mais non.
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agree |
sylvan pradel
: I would probably use this translation for french-canadian, but not for french-french.
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