Colin Camerer, Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics at the California Institute of Technology, has been named one of the MacArthur Foundation’s 2013 Fellows. Camerer is a founding member of the Russell Sage Foundation's Behavioral Economics Roundtable as well as a former RSF Visiting Scholar.

The Roundtable is one of the major activities of the Russell Sage Foundation’s Behavioral Economics research program. Made up of 28 prominent behavioral economists, including Camerer, the Roundtable currently sponsors three main activities: a small grants program for younger scholars undertaking behaviorally oriented research; a two-week summer workshop taught by Roundtable members for graduate students and junior faculty interested in entering this new interdisciplinary field; and a book series in a behavioral economics, of which Camerer is co-editor. Camerer is the author of Behavioral Game Theory and the co-editor of Advances in Behavioral Economics, both co-published with Princeton University Press.

Launched in 1986 as a joint activity with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the RSF Behavioral Economics program was an early force in the development of behavioral economics. Behavioral economics—an interdisciplinary field which incorporates the insights of cognitive and social psychology and sociology into the study of economic patterns—investigates the systematic departures from rationality in economic decision-making, offering explanations of aspects of market behavior that fall outside textbook models. To learn more about the RSF program, click here.