MGMTPHD 260Behavioral Economics: Individuals, Organizations, and Markets
Management-PhD · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Study of how predictions of behavior and optimal economic policy differ when traditional economic assumptions (often selfish, unbounded rationality) are replaced with more psychologically realistic assumptions drawn from lab and world. Special attention to way in which these modified assumptions can be incorporated into broadly applicable and parsimonious models of human behavior, and what they imply for markets, management, and public policy.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
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