中國人民大學企業與組織研究中心

組織經濟學Seminar

【2011F08】

組織經濟學（Organizational Economics）Seminar由中國人民大學企業與組織研究中心（CFOS）主辦。CFOS的宗旨是，利用現代經濟學方法研究中國的企業、政府、市場和非營利組織的重大問題，推動企業理論、契約理論和制度經濟學的研究與教學。關注CFOS，請訪問http://CFOS.ruc.edu.cn。

時間：2012年1月4日（周三）12：00－13：30

地點：明德主樓729會議室

主持：聶輝華

主講：趙小健

主題：Towards an Economic Theory of Consciousness

摘要：We apply the methodology of information economics in an intra-person multiple-self setting to model the relation between one’s economic wellbeing and state of consciousness, including amnesia and delusion, which may underpin some categories of mental (dis-)order. We posit the notion of semi-conscious choice in which the individual habituates into being “strategically” forgetful or delusional to enhance the motivation of one`s future selves. We endogenize the individual’s habituated state of cognitive error proneness in equilibrium from his attitude towards intertemporal discounting, including present bias. In our result, delusion and amnesia are substitute mechanisms. The emergence of delusion results from a severe present bias. However, the chance of having amnesia does not depend monotonically on the magnitude of present bias. The results are also confirmed by our experiment. We further study the ex ante welfare of the individual in relation to his equilibrated state of consciousness and offer it as an economic measure of his mental wellbeing. We provide a normative result that it is better to be normal than forgetful or delusional. A higher frequency of social interaction improves the mental well being for both normal and disordered individuals, and a high frequency of stressful events is harmful for one`s mental health.

演講者簡介：趙小健，現為香港科技大學經濟學系助理教授。他于2010年獲得德國曼海姆大學經濟學博士學位，2005年在德國弗萊堡大學獲得經濟學與政治學碩士學位，已在Review of Economic Studies、Mathematical Social Sciences、Rationality and Society等知名國際刊物上發表論文多篇，主要研究領域為契約理論、信息經濟學、經濟學和心理學。

中國人民大學經濟學院

人大企業與組織研究中心

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