Martti Vihanto

Biography

  Martti Vihanto started his studies at the Turku School of Economics in 1975 and has been a staff member since graduation in different positions. He studied at the Australian National University in 1983. Docent of Economics since 2000. Docent of Law and Economics in the University of Eastern Finland. Vihanto deals in his research and instruction with bounded rationality in economic decision making and, connected to it, the role of behavioral anomalies, evolutionary processes and social institutions in the economy. A lifelong enthusiasm for philately, specifically worldwide stamp collecting.      

Research Interest

 Pluralistic, heterodox and multidisciplinary approaches to economics.  Extensions of a Finnish textbook on institutional economics (in progress)