A economia comportamental como área de estudo: uma análise de redes da produção acadêmica nacional

Abstract

Behavioral Economics is an emerging topic within the study of Economic Sciences and constitutes an expanding field of research. Its main exponents in the area are the works of Herbert Simon, Kahneman and Tversky and Richard Thaler. The present work proposes to analyze how the panorama of academic research on Behavioral Economics is. The platform used in this research was the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, which gathers post-graduate studies in the country. For the development of this study, the method used was the bibliographical research, having as support the sociometric analysis or social networks analysis. As results, we discovered 41 works in different areas of knowledge, for example, Administration, Economic Sciences, Law, Psychology, Sociology and others. The theses and dissertations about Behavioral Economics are concentrated in the University of São Paulo, University of Brasília and Fundação Getúlio Vargas. In 2017, the greatest number of papers were published. It was also discovered that among the most cited authors, Richard Thaler is considered the author in common among all areas, being more used in the Administration. Of the thirteen papers in the area of Economic Sciences, nine deal with decision making, one of the main objects of Behavioral Economics.