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J Exp Anal Behav. 2013 Jan;99(1):98-124. doi: 10.1002/jeab.7.
The application of economics principles to the analysis of behavior has yielded novel insights on value and choice across contexts ranging from laboratory animal research to clinical populations to national trends of global impact. Recent innovations in demand curve methods provide a credible means of quantitatively comparing qualitatively different reinforcers as well as quantifying the choice relations between concurrently available reinforcers. The potential of the behavioral economic approach to inform public policy is illustrated with examples from basic research, pre-clinical behavioral pharmacology, and clinical drug abuse research as well as emerging applications to public transportation and social behavior. Behavioral Economics can serve as a broadly applicable conceptual, methodological, and analytical framework for the development and evaluation of empirical public policy.
经济学原理在分析行为方面的应用，在从实验室动物研究到临床人群再到具有全球影响的国家趋势等各种背景下，对价值和选择产生了新的认识。最近需求曲线方法的创新为定量比较质量不同的强化物以及量化同时存在的强化物之间的选择关系提供了一种可靠的手段。从基础研究、临床行为药理学和临床药物滥用研究中的例子，以及新兴的公共交通和社会行为应用，说明了行为经济学方法在为公共政策提供信息方面的潜力。行为经济学可以作为一个广泛适用的概念、方法和分析框架，用于制定和评估经验性公共政策。
