Isn’t there a hypothesis 6: economists are paid more than behavioral economics?

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Dec 6, 2015

Why Behavioral Economics is Cool, and I’m Not

Adam Grant

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Isn’t there a hypothesis 6: economists are paid more than behavioral economics? Sell your work as an application of BE and wind up in a department with somewhat more resources? Not that we economists mind — the more the merrier!