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Behavioral economics emerged as a formal discipline in the 1970s and 1980s when psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky began documenting systematic deviations from rational choice theory. Classical economics assumed agents maximize expected utility with consistent preferences. Behavioral economics asks: what do people actually do?

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