Why lay social representations of the economy should count in economics

Darriet, Elisa; Bourgeois‐Gironde, Sacha

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“…In the last past years, the interest in the way laypeople understand and represent economic issues has increased more and more. Darriet and Bourgeois-Gironde (2015) have even proposed that lay economic representations should play a major role in economic theoretical modeling. Indeed, the perception is itself a significant economic factor that should be considered in economic analysis.…”

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How Political Orientation and Vulnerability Shape Representations of the Economic Crisis in Greece and Italy

Mari¹,

Volpato²,

Παπαστάμου³

et al. 2017

International Review of Social Psychology

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In the current research, we investigated the lay representations of the recent economic downturn, that had severe consequences on the lives of the involved people. We compared data of respondents from two countries that were affected to a different degree by the crisis: Greece (N = 529) and Italy (N = 327). We examined laypeople's representations of the perceived causes of the crunch (e.g., overconsumption, obscure power conspiracy), the strategies that are believed to be useful to overcome it (e.g., conforming to EU request, EU exit), and the political participatory activities (e.g., legal and illegal activism) that people intend to adopt. These variables were analyzed in light of two main predictors: political orientation and subjective economic vulnerability. The main hypothesis was that self-positioning on the left/ right axis may be a strong driver of lay representations and political participation. However, we expected that in conjunction with the linear effect of this variable, its quadratic effect should be considered as well. The latter specifies that in some circumstances the opinions of people self-positioned at the poles of the political spectrum may be closer to each other than to the opinions of the people that position themselves in the center which sometimes do not behave as moderate but appear more conformist. Additionally, we hypothesized that vulnerability may be a motive to seek for explanations of the crisis, to find strategies and to engage in activities to overcome it. Findings were generally in line with predictions and were discussed in the light of recent research and the context of analysis.

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Section: The Economic Crisis and Its Lay Representationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Political Orientation and Vulnerability Shape Representations of the Economic Crisis in Greece and Italy

Mari¹,

Volpato²,

Παπαστάμου³

et al. 2017

International Review of Social Psychology

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“…In the face of such uncertainty, it would be reasonable to say that most of our decisions are noisy, if not predominantly indecisive. Moreover, from a cognitive point of view, the economic environment that humans have created through their repeated interactions has eventually produced a set of laws, mechanisms and institutions that most lay persons do not or even cannot understand [1,2]. Confronted with this cognitive gap between the human mind and the economy that the human mind itself and human activities have generated, economists have proposed two main theoretical solutions to make sense of how we still manage to make our way, through our individual and collective economic lives, with more or less adaptive success.…”

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“…Endnote 1 The homeomorphic/paramorphic terminology is drawn from Wakker [51]: a model, identifiable in some empirical data of interest, is homeomorphic if its theoretical structure maps onto the underlying cognitive processes that generated the data, and paramorphic otherwise.…”

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Economic behaviours among non-human primates

Bourgeois‐Gironde

Addessi

Boraud

2021

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Do we have any valid reasons to affirm that non-human primates display economic behaviour in a sufficiently rich and precise sense of the phrase? To address this question, we have to develop a set of criteria to assess the vast array of experimental studies and field observations on individual cognitive and behavioural competences as well as the collective organization of non-human primates. We review a sample of these studies and assess how they answer to the following four main challenges. (i) Do we see any economic organization or institutions emerge among groups of non-human primates? (ii) Are the cognitive abilities, and often biases, that have been evidenced as underlying typical economic decision-making among humans, also present among non-human primates? (iii) Can we draw positive lessons from performance comparisons among primate species, humans and non-humans but also across non-human primate species, as elicited by canonical game-theoretical experimental paradigms, especially as far as economic cooperation and coordination are concerned? And (iv) in which way should we improve models and paradigms to obtain more ecological data and conclusions? Articles discussed in this paper most often bring about positive answers and promising perspectives to support the existence and prevalence of economic behaviours among non-human primates. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Existence and prevalence of economic behaviours among non-human primates’.

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“…Как убедительный источник информации нарративы важны в первую очередь для «простых людей» -массовых акторов, не обладающих специальными знаниями для понимания текстов, насыщенных научной терминологией, цифрами, показателями и т.п. Своим качественным характером они близки к совокупности знаний, объединяемых понятием «народная экономическая теория» (folk economics) (Rubin, 2003) или «дилетантские социальные репрезентации экономики» (lay social representations of the economy) (Darriet & Bourgeois-Gironde, 2015).…”

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Why lay social representations of the economy should count in economics

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How Political Orientation and Vulnerability Shape Representations of the Economic Crisis in Greece and Italy

How Political Orientation and Vulnerability Shape Representations of the Economic Crisis in Greece and Italy

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