Towards a History of Behavioral and Experimental Economics in France

Dorian Jullien and Alexandre Truc
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Alexandre Truc: Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, GREDEG, France

No 2024-23, GREDEG Working Papers from Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur, France

Abstract: Existing histories of behavioral and experimental economics (BE-XP) are mostly focused on the intellectual and institutional developments of these approaches in the United States of America - and to a lesser extent in Germany. While a seminal contribution to these approaches was produced in the early 1950s in France by Maurice Allais, the literature is rather silent on how BE-XP developed subsequently in France. We propose to fill this gap by comparing the history of BE-XP in France to international trends previously identified in the literature. We show that after an ambivalent influence of the work of Allais (1953) on BE-XP in France during the 1980s, that influence rapidly faded. BE-XP in France then largely follows international trends. We nevertheless identify some heterogeneity across the French territory and the development of at least two national specificities on the measurement of utility and the modeling of social preferences.

Keywords: Behavioral economics; Experimental economics; History of economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B21 B40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2024-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-evo, nep-exp, nep-his, nep-hpe, nep-inv and nep-upt
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