Abstract
Study objective: Behavioral economics has contributed to the study of behavior by showing that a behavioral experiment is an economic system that can be characterized as an open or closed economy, that reinforcers can be distinguished by the concept of elasticity, that reinforcers may interact as substitutes or complements, and that a simple choice rule, such as matching, canonly account for choice between substitutable reinforcers. Just as behavioral economics was created from the interaction of behavior analysis and economics,behavior economics will develop by interacting with new research areas withineconomics, such as experimental economics and evolutionary economics.
