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1901–1981 United States

George Katona (Nov. 6, 1901, June 18, 1981) was a Hungarian-born American psychologist, and Professor at the University of Michigan, who was one of the first to advocate a rapprochement between economics and psychologists. He is known as one of the founding fathers of old behavioral economics.

United States
Psychologists

Also known as: Katona, George

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Motives, attitudes, and expectations of consumers and businessmen play a significant role in determining spending, saving, and investing and that modern psychology provides conceptual as well as methodological tools for the investigation of economic behavior.

Intervening variables are essential to psychological analysis because without them our description of economic behavior would remain incomplete, our understanding of behavior limited, and our predictions of future behavior incorrect.

George Katona (1951)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Katona (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.