#488 Erik Kimbrough: Norms, Institutions, Impersonal Exchange, Specialization, and Organ Donation
RECORDED ON FEBRUARY 25th 2021.
Dr. Erik Kimbrough is an associate professor of economics at the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy in the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University. His research uses experiments to explore the underpinnings of prosociality, cooperation and conflict resolution and to identify the origins of economic institutions such as property rights. He has also worked on finding ways to increase the supply of transplantable organs, measuring the spitefulness of individuals, understanding the sources of asset price bubbles, evaluating individual theory of mind, and capturing the discovery process underlying specialization and trade, among other topics.
In this episode, we talk about behavioral economics. We start with norms, their origins, and why do people follow them. We also talk about institutions, personal and impersonal exchange, specialization, and theory of mind. Toward the end, we talk about organ donations, and adolescent smoking.
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Intro
Norms
Institutions
Kin and ethnic favoritism, and corruption
Specialization
Theory of mind
Organ donations
Adolescent smoking
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Faculty page: https://bit.ly/38ifzwj
Website: http://bit.ly/2NWHnj9
ResearchGate profile: https://bit.ly/37Lu1xr
Twitter handle: @bemusement