Grüne-Yanoff Till
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH),Stockholm;TINT Finnish Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of Social Science,HelsinkiE-mail address:
Sci Context. 2015 Dec;28(4):675-713. doi: 10.1017/S0269889715000307.
Today's models of temporal discounting are the result of multiple interdisciplinary exchanges between psychology and economics. Although these exchanges did not result in an integrated discipline, they had important effects on all disciplines involved. The paper describes these exchanges from the 1930s onwards, focusing on two episodes in particular: an attempted synthesis by psychiatrist George Ainslie and others in the 1970s; and the attempted application of this new discounting model by a generation of economists and psychologists in the 1980s, which ultimately ended in the diversity of measurements disappointment. I draw four main conclusions. First, multiple notions of temporal discounting must be conceptually distinguished. Second, behavioral economics is not an integration or unification of psychology and economics. Third, the analysis identifies some central disciplinary markers that distinguish modeling strategies in economics and psychology. Finally, it offers a case of interdisciplinary success that does not fit the currently dominant account of interdisciplinarity as integration.
当今的时间贴现模型是心理学与经济学之间多次跨学科交流的成果。尽管这些交流并未形成一门综合学科，但它们对所有相关学科都产生了重要影响。本文描述了自20世纪30年代以来的这些交流，尤其关注两个特定阶段：20世纪70年代精神病学家乔治·安斯利等人尝试进行的综合；以及20世纪80年代一代经济学家和心理学家对这种新贴现模型的尝试应用，而这最终以测量方法的多样性令人失望而告终。我得出四个主要结论。第一，必须在概念上区分时间贴现的多种概念。第二，行为经济学并非心理学与经济学的整合或统一。第三，该分析确定了一些区分经济学和心理学建模策略的核心学科标志。最后，它提供了一个跨学科成功的案例，该案例不符合当前将跨学科视为整合的主流观点。
