The Behavioral Economics of Translation

This book applies frameworks from behavioral economics to Western thinking about translation, mapping four approaches to eight keywords in translation studies to bring together divergent perspectives on the study of translation and interpreting.

Douglas Robinson is Professor of Translation Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and author of two dozen books and five dozen articles and book chapters on translation, literature, rhetoric, semiotics, and culture. His recent Routledge books include Critical Translation Studies (2017), Translationality (2017), Priming Translation (2022), and Translation as a Form (2023).