In his provacatively titled piece We're all behavioral economists now, Erik Angner (2019) argues that, far from being peripheral to economics, behavioral economics is now a central part of the field with the result that we are all behavioral economists. But if that is the case, we might ask, are all Introductory Economics classes Behavioral Economics classes now? The answer to that question would be an unequivocal, No. How, then, should we think about the Introductory Economics classroom and the integration of behavioral economics can be integrated into a Principles of Microeconomics classroom, demonstrating how certain principles-level ideas can be modified to include behavioral economics ideas either intuitively or with more formal introductory-level models.

Halliday, Simon D., and Emily C. Marshall. Where is theBehavioralin Introductory Microeconomics? In Teaching Principles of Microeconomics, edited by Mark Maier and Phil Ruder, 88-107. Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.

Emily Marshall is a professor of Economics at Dickinson College.

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