At 10:05 PM 6/14/00 -0700, you wrote:
>this fellow got a McArthur grant yesterday. Anybody know of him?
>
>Matthew Rabin
I read an article he had in the JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE, which
surveyed the psychology literature that he deemed relevant to economists.
It was quite competent and interesting. Among other things, his survey
suggested that a pure market environment encourages opportunistic
psychology and behavior. This goes against some of the most hallowed faiths
of economic orthodoxy.
A colleague who was a student of Rabin's at UC-Berkeley has some personal
details, but I'll skip them.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
["clawww" or "liberalarts" can replace "bellarmine"]
