----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Dear Colleague, I am organizing a conference this July on behavioral economics, which is becoming a research agenda with a force not seen since the rise of rational expectations over two decades ago. I invite to attend. You may pass the announcement to interested colleagues. Here is the program: Behavioral Research Council A Division of American Institute for Economic Research Second Annual Symposium on the Foundation of the Behavioral Sciences "Behavioral Economics and Neoclassical Economics: Continuity or Discontinuity?" To be held at Simon's Rock College of Bard, 84 Alford Road, Great Barrington, Mass. >From 8:30 a.m. July 19 to 4:30 July 20, 2002 Thursday (7/18) 4:00-9:00-Registration, Dining Hall 5:30-6:30-Reception, Dining Hall 6:30-8:00-Buffet dinner, Dining Hall Friday (7/19) and Saturday (7/20) 8:30-Registration and Conference, Fisher Center Program George Ainslie (" Income Maximizing in the Light of Hyperbolic Discounting") Chief of Psychiatry, Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Temple University Jonathan Baron ("Rational and Irrational Political Behavior: The Role of Moralistic Values") Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics Gary Becker (TBA) University Professor of Economics and Sociology, University of Chicago Rose-Marie and Jack R. Anderson Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution Gary Charness (TBA) Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of California at Santa Barbara James Cox (TBA) Arizona Public Service Professor, Department of Economics Distinguished Scholar, Economic Science Laboratory University of Arizona Xavier Gabaix ("The Cost of Cognition") Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Herbert Gintis (TBA) Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute Brit Grosskopf (TBA) Lecturer, Harvard Business School David Laibson ("The Cost of Cognition") Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy, Department of Economics, Harvard University Richard Posner ("The Implications of Behavioral Economics for the Law.") Judge, US 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Senior Lecturer, Law School, University of Chicago Eldar Shafir (TBA) Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Department of Psychology and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University Meir Statman (TBA) Glenn Klimek Professor, Finance Department, Santa Clara University Cass Sunstein (TBA) Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence, Law School, Department of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago (You may download the registration form from the website www.brc-aier.org) Elias L. Khalil Director, Behavioral Research Council American Institute for Economic Research PO Box 1000, Division Street Great Barrington, MA 01230 TEL: (413) 528-1216 (ext. 3124) (work) TEL: (413) 637-3909 (home) FAX: (413) 528-0103 Email: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask] Website: www.brc-aier.org ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]