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Challenges of folk-economic beliefs: Coverage, level of abstraction, and relation to ideology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2018

Zeljka Buturovic
Zeljka Buturovic*
Affiliation:
Institute for Social Sciences, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia. zbuturovic@idn.org.rshttp://www.idn.org.rs/index_eng.php
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Abstract

There are no clear criteria regarding what kind of beliefs should count as folk-economic beliefs (FEBs), or any way to make an exhaustive list that could be filtered through such criteria. This allows the target article authors, Boyer & Petersen, to cherry-pick FEBs, which results in the omission of some well-established FEBs. The authors do not sufficiently address a strong relationship between ideology and FEBs.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e165
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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