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Nationality: United Kingdom

Affiliation: Inon/The Irrational Agency

Student Status: Other professional (non-academic)

Level of Education: Undergraduate degree

Field of Study: Mathematics or Statistics

Joined: August 21, 2017

Leigh Caldwell

London, GB

Member: Philosophy of Economics, Core, Complexity Economics

Research Interests

  • Agent Based Modeling
  • Behavioral and Experimental Economics
  • Economic Sociology
  • Gender and Economics
  • Human Capital
  • Inequality
  • Psychology
  • Theory of The Firm
  • Value Theory

About

Working on theory of cognitive economics: to understand psychological goods, in particular how they both affect our preferences and utility from material goods, and act as consumption goods in themselves. Also, applying this research (and other behavioural economics-related findings) commercially in consulting, pricing strategy and the market research industry. Author of The Psychology of Price (http://amzn.to/leighbook)

About my research

My research is on cognitive economics: the modelling of mental simulation, and how it gives rise to valuation of intangible (mental) goods.