SABE Conference 2007 - Registration

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S A B E

SABE is an association of scholars who are committed to the rigorous economic analysis of the world we live in.

SABE members possess a deep and abiding interest in how people actually behave because an understanding of such behavior is a vital determinant of the micro foundations of economics as a social science.

SABE welcomes the use of psychology, sociology, history, political science, biology, and other disciplines to assist in furthering our understanding of economic choice. SABE accepts and encourages economic analysis based on behavioral assumptions that challenge the basic premises of the neoclassical paradigm, or, alternatively accept those premises. SABE members consider the optimizing assumptions of neoclassical theory to represent an extreme but at times a useful subset of possible assumptions about economic behavior.

An important function of SABE is to serve as a forum for research which may not find either comprehension or acceptance in conventional economics societies or meetings. In this way SABE hopes to facilitate the further enrichment and development of economic science as a vehicle with which to further our understanding of the economy, past and present.

SABE sponsors conferences and sessions in conferences every year. SABE also publishes a newsletter twice a year which links and informs its many members throughout the world of SABE and SABE-related activities.

Join SABE now to take advantage a economic organization which is in the forefront of economic analysis and discourse.

SABE is a member of The International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE) and the Allied Social Sciences Association.

ICAPE is an umbrella organization for over 30 economics organizations whose objective is to maintain pluralism in economics.

Statement of Purpose

SABE is an association of scholars who are committed to rigorous economic analysis and are interested in learning how other disciplines-e.g. psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, political science, and biology--further our understanding of economic behavior. An important function of SABE is to serve as a forum for research which may not find either comprehension or acceptance in conventional economics societies. It is open to all aspects of behavioral economics, including experimental economics. SABE also aims at facilitating vibrant communication between economists and scholars trained in related disciplines.

SABE holds bi-annual meetings, annually sponsors a poster session during the ASSA meetings, and sessions during the Eastern Economics Association Meetings. SABE also co-organizes conferences in Europe every other year.

Early History of SABE

The founding meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE) took place on December 29, 1982 at the ASS A Conference in New York City. Shlomo Maital organized the meeting but could not attend because his wife gave birth at that time. Attending were 14 people including myself, Richard Hattwick, Gordon Winston of Williams College, Richard Thaler of Cornell, and Peter Loeb, Stanley Kaish, Benny Gilad (all from Rutgers). The first conference was held at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University on May 22-23, 1984. Among the attendess were Harvey Leibenstein, Amos Tversky, Daniel Kahneman, Fred van Raiij, Thomas Schelling, Richard Coughlin, Kelvin Lancaster, Shlomo Maital, Orley Ashenfelter, Sidney Winter, Richard Thaler, Benny Gilad, Karl-Erik Warneryd, Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtmann, myself, and others. Benny Gilad was the main organizer of this conference. The next conference was held at Middlebury College on October 25-28, 1985. It was organized by Paul Albanese. The third conference was organized by Shlomo Maital. It took place at the Kibbutz Shefayim near Haifa, Israel on July 9-11, 1986. The next important SABE conference took place June 15-17, 1988 at San Diego State University. It was organized by Roger Frantz.

SABE's Second Coming

Amitai Etzioni, a former SABE member and sociologist, opportunistically took the wind out of SABE sails in the process of bringing a new organization, the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, into existence. While SASE grew rapidly and undoubtedly served a significant multidisciplinary role for a variety of noneconomists, a number of the economist members of the original SABE found that there was still a need for an interdisciplinary economics-based organization. Sensing this, John Tomer who was on sabbatical during 1990-1991, along with the subsequent help of Shlomo Maital who was also on sabbatical and in the U.S., began contacting former SABE members and organized a meeting in Washington, DC on December 29, 1990 during the ASS A Conference to explore the reestablishment of SABE. About a year later on January 4, 1992 in New Orleans during the ASS A Conference, SABE was officially reestablished, and a SABE Board was elected. John Tomer was elected President and was asked to organize the next independent SABE Conference. This conference took place in Rensselaerville, New York (outside Albany) on August 13-15, 1993. Shortly thereafter, SABE started a newsletter which Morris Altaian has ably edited. At this point, the Board believed that SABE did not possess the resources to have its own independent conference every year. To keep active, it was decided to join with other similar groups for conference activity in the intervening years. The first such venture occurred in July 1994 when SABE members participated in two conferences back to back, one organized by the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology in Rotterdam and the other organized by SASE in Paris. On August 16-18, 1995, Shlomo Maital organized, with the help of Noah Meltz and Eva Hollander of the Woodsworth College (University of Toronto), the next independent SABE conference at Toronto. The following year, John Tomer organized five sessions at the SASE Conference in Geneva, Switzerland on July 12-14,1996. Art Goldsmith along with Carl Kaiser organized the conference at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia on June 20-22, 1997. The sessions at the July 13-16,1998 SASE Conference in Vienna, Austria at the United Nations complex were organized by Kishor Thanawala. In 1999, Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman with the help of Christopher Clague organized the SABE Conference at San Diego State University on June 12-14. SABE joined with IAREP for its July 12-16, 2000 conference in Baden, Austria at the Schloss Weikersdorf Hotel, formerly a castle. Morris Altaian and Kishor Thanawala were members of the organizing committee headed up by Erich Kirchler from the University of Vienna's Department of Psychology. Several days later, John Tomer and Morris Altaian participated in a symposium on Behavioral Economics in the Economy in Transition at the University of Warsaw; Ewa Gucwa-Lesny, a SABE member and University of Warsaw professor, organized this event and one the following day at the Center for Social and Economic Analysis (CASE). The upcoming SABE Conference will be organized by Shlomo Maital and Hugh Schwartz; it will take place on June 11-12, 2001 at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. SABE has also organized poster sessions at most of the recent ASSA Conferences.

Conference History

2006	Joint Meetings with the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology, at Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris I), Centre Panth�on, Paris, July 5-8, 2008, organized by Louis Levy-Garboua and Christine Roland-L�vy.
2006	Joint Meetings with the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology, at Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris I), Centre Panth�on, Paris, July 5-8, 2008, organized by Louis Levy-Garboua and Christine Roland-L�vy.
2004	Joint Meetings with the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology, at Drexel University, Philadelphia, July 15-18, 2004, organized by Bijou Yang Lester.
2003	Meetings at Cal-Neva Resort, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA, July 28 - July 31, organized by Mark Pingle.
2002	Joint Meetings with the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology, in Turku, Finland (July).
2001	Meeting at George Washington University, Washington DC, June 11-12, 2001, organized by Shlomo Maital and Hugh Schwartz.
2000	Joint Meetings with the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology, in Baden-Vienna (July).
1999	Meetings at San Diego State University organized by Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman and Christopher Clague.
1997	Meetings at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, organized by Art Goldsmith and Carl Kaiser.
1995	Meetings at the University of Toronto, organized by Shlomo Maital, Noah Meltz and Eva Hollander
1994	Joint Meetings with the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology, at the University of Rotterdam, organized by Gerrit Antonides, W. Fred van Raaij, and Shlomo Maital.
1993	Meetings in Rensselaerville, New York, organized by John Tomer.
1992	SABE reestablished. John Tomer named president.
1988-1992	1988-1992 SABE merges with SASE, the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics led by Amitai Etzioni.
1988	Meetings in San Diego, organized by Roger Frantz.
1986	Joint Meetings with the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology, in Kibbutz Shefayim, Israel, organized by Shlomo Maital.
1984	First Meetings at Princeton University, organized by Benny Gilad.
1982	SABE is started. First business meeting includes Benny Gilad (Rutgers), Shlomo Maital, John Tomer and Richard Thaler (Cornell). Executive Director: Benny Gilad.