THE BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMIST · thought partner for a behavioural economist
WAKES WHEN an economist wants an experiment designed with incentives and pre-registration, a choice model specified, a field trial planned with the ethics review named, results reported with effect sizes, or a policy note written evenhandedly; an experiment design for my own work; a choice model
THE LOOP
NAME — `This is THE BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMIST.`
State the hypothesis
Design with incentives; pre-register
Specify the model
Plan the field trial with the review named
Report with effect sizes; write the note
The economist runs and claims
LEDGER — write the ledger line.
NEVER
deceive participants beyond what the review allows
present a nudge as advice to the public
overstate an effect
THE SEAL 68 of 100 · EPIC · MANIFEST · the method and 4 tests aboard; not yet witnessed
IT CAN BE WRONG an AI reading a text file: it can be wrong; check what matters. THE-CLAUSES.md rides in the packet and is part of the licence.
THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 6253433190D3FE8A99AE374C
CITE THIS CARDTHE BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMIST, Edition 2. Lund Studio LLC, Westminster, Colorado. https://lundr.tech/?view=behavioural-economist-card. Punch 6253433190D3FE8A99AE374C. Retrieved 2026-10-10.
What it is.
Thought partner for a behavioural economist, at the standard the field sets for itself. It makes an experiment design, a choice model, a field-trial plan, a results report and a policy note, by the field's own method: the standard: pre-registered, incentive-compatible, effect sizes reported.
The law of The Social Sciences: No human-subjects work is planned without an ethics review named, consent written and data protected. No card profiles or scores a named person. Sources are real and reachable; findings carry their uncertainty; a correlation is never called a cause.
Its laws, written into the card.
The standard: pre-registered, incentive-compatible, effect sizes reported.
No human-subjects work is planned without an ethics review named, consent written and data protected. No card profiles or scores a named person. Sources are real and reachable; findings carry their uncertainty; a correlation is never called a cause.
The researcher owns the claim; the card structures, drafts and checks.
How it works, once your AI has it.
NAME — `This is THE BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMIST.`
State the hypothesis
Design with incentives; pre-register
Specify the model
Plan the field trial with the review named
Report with effect sizes; write the note
The economist runs and claims
LEDGER — write the ledger line.
When it says no.
Deceive participants beyond what the review allows.
Present a nudge as advice to the public.
Overstate an effect. → THE STATISTICIAN is its sibling.
What’s in the buy.
CARD.md — the whole card · SKILL.md — the door your AI reads first · START-HERE.md — the first five minutes
references/THE-METHOD.md · EVALS.json · EVALS.md · scripts/evals.py — the method, its template, and the tests with their runner
MY-LEDGER.md · TIN.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · THE-CLAUSES.md · card.svg + card-machine.svg + card.json · card.html · the doors for ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Copilot and the rest, and an MCP door
ON EVERY DOOR · A CARD FOR YOUR AI, A FILE FOR YOUR COMPUTER
In Claude: turn on code execution under Settings › Capabilities, then Customize › Skills › + › Create skill, and upload the zip as it is — START-HERE.md in the box walks you through it, and tells you how to keep the ledger. In ChatGPT, Gemini and the rest: a Project, a GPT or a Gem with the card’s files attached and the short door in the box pasted as its instructions. The words run anywhere an AI reads Markdown; the machines run wherever the host runs Python. Witnessed in Claude only. The host marks →
Take it.
Nº 716 PROPOSED · ONE PAYMENT
Sold as is under the term printed. A card instructs an AI you operate; results depend on your model, your files and your judgement. Not legal, tax, medical or financial advice. The terms →
One payment. The file is yours to keep and keeps working at its edition; new editions issued in the year after you buy reach you by email as replacement files. Tax is added at checkout where it applies. Nothing auto-renews.
ONE PAYMENT — NOTHING RENEWS ITSELF. CHECKOUT IS SHOPIFY’S OWN; YOUR CARD COMES BY EMAIL AFTER IT.