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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies

  • Joseph Henrich
  • Robert Boyd
  • Samuel Bowles
  • Colin Camerer
  • Ernst Fehr
  • Herbert Gintis
  • Richard McElreath
American Economic Review
vol. 91, no. 2, May 2001
(pp. 73–78)
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Citation

Henrich, Joseph, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis, and Richard McElreath. 2001. "In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies." American Economic Review, 91 (2): 73–78. DOI: 10.1257/aer.91.2.73

JEL Classification

  • D10 Household Behavior: General
  • D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis