鉴于芝加哥大学教授理查德·塞勒对行为经济学的杰出贡献,瑞典皇家科学院将2017年诺贝尔经济学奖授给了这位在自身研究领域持续耕作了30多年的经济学家。在颁奖词中,诺奖评审委员会重点指出塞勒对行为经济学的建树主要体现在有限理性、社会偏好和缺乏自制三大理论方面。不过,上述三大理论的地位并不是平等的,其中有限理性可以看作是塞氏全部理论的总阀门,也可以视为是其对经济 In recognition of the distinguished contribution of Richard Sellers, a professor at the University of Chicago, to behavioral economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for 2017 to the economist who has cultivated more than 30 years in his field of study. In the presentation speech, Nobel Prize Committee has pointed out that Seiler’s contribution to behavioral economics is mainly reflected in the three rationales of bounded rationality, social preference and lack of self-control. However, the status of the above three theories is not equal, of which bounded rationality can be regarded as the total valve of all the Seitz’s theory, but also can be regarded as its economy