George Katona
George Katona was a Hungarian-born American psychologist considered by some to be a founder of behavioral economics.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Budapest
- Educated at
- Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinUniversity of GöttingenEötvös Loránd University
- Awards
- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Fellow of the American Statistical Association
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"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 predicti…"
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Timeline
1901
Born
Birth1981
Died
Death
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