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Rational Choice, Scientific Method and Social Scientism

Adi, Bongo; Amaeshi, Kenneth; Tokunaga, Suminori - EconWPA - 2005

The eighteenth-century introduction of the scientific method of the natural sciences to the study of social phenomena draws a line between moral philosophy Ethat aspect of ancient and medieval philosophy that dealt with social issues Eand the social sciences as known today. From the onset, the...

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Ideologies, Beliefs, and Economic Advice - A Cognitive- Evolutionary View on Economic Policy-Making

Slembeck, Tilman - EconWPA - 2000

Economists often perceive the “ideological beliefs“ held by political actors as obstacles to rational policy-making. In contrast, it is argued that ideologies have characteristics that appear desirable in policy- making in that they allow political actors to credibly commit themselves to...

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Knowledge and Structure

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

This article presents a formalization of knowledge based on a connectionist model of a firm's structure. Transaction costs are not ignored, but integrated with the knowledge-based approach. A numerical example on the canonical comparison of "Japanese" versus "American" organizational structures...

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Neural correlates of the affect heuristic during brand choice

Plassmann, Hilke; Kenning, Peter; Deppe, Michael; … - EconWPA - 2005

In this working paper it is investigated how affect and cognition interact in consumer decision making. The research …

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Evidence Theory: A Mathematical Framework for Unpredictable Hypotheses

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

Shafer's evidence theory is a branch of the mathematics of uncertain reasoning that allows for novel possibilities to be conceived by a decision-maker. Many of its findings exhibit striking similarities with an alternative decision theory purported by Shackle in the 1950s, before expected...

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Recognizing Investment Opportunities at the Onset of Recoveries

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

Investment decision-making is modeled by means of a Kohonen neural net, where neurons represent firms. This is done in order to model investments in novel fields of economic activity, that according to this model are carried out when firms recognize the emergence of a new technological pattern....

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Accounting for Agricultural Decline with Economic Growth in Taiwan

Sun, Ling; Fulginiti, Lilyan E.; Peterson, E. Wesley - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we propose an empirical model to decompose the evolution of the agricultural GDP share of Taiwan into …

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TRUST OF MODERNITY, MODERNITY OF TRUST. CONSIDERATIONS AND RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS

CONTE, MASSIMO - EconWPA - 2005

THE DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP IN OUR TIMES IMPOSE A GROWING IMPORTANCE TO 'TRUST' AS A RESOURCE BETWEEN PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP AS BETWEEN PERSONS AND COMPLEX SOCIAL SYSTEM. THE MAIN FEATURE OF MODERNITY IN SOCIAL CONNECTIONS IS GIVEN BY THE SPREAD OF A 'TIME/SPACE' DISTANCE. THE INCREASING...

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Multi-attribute Analysis of Confidence, Convenience and Price Functions of Customers of Financial Services Firms: a GLS Systems Model

Rao, Ananth - EconWPA - 2005

The purpose of the study is to examine significant attributes of customers for explaining the level of confidence … the satisfaction and confidence of customers across FSFs. Results indicate that: core, tangible and relational attributes …’ confidence and convenience functions had a reliability of 92 to 94 percent while the value function had a reliability of 74 …

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Inequality-Driven Growth: Unveiling Aggregation Effects in Growth Equations

Albuquerque, Pedro H. - EconWPA - 2005

. The accelerated growth episodes observed in Brazil and China demonstrate that the increase in income inequality may have …

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