Folk-economics: Inherited biases or misapplication of everyday experience?

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Abstract

Evidence for an EEA-derived domain-specific inference system must point to an active, latent representational structure. Otherwise we need to hypothesize only passive, virtual belief not over-ridden on the basis of the individual's experience. The folk economic beliefs identified by Boyer & Petersen (B&P), being with one exception about macroeconomics, might be virtual beliefs that people extrapolate across the micro-macro scale shift based on their experiences with markets.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)e184
JournalBehavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume41
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2018

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