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Decisions, preferences, and heuristics : an introduction to economic psychology and behavioral economics

Mir Artigues, Pere - 2023

ecological rationality research program, it presents the main factors that determine economic choices, before exploring the most … algorithms applied by people in decision-making processes, among which there are outstanding social concerns. Drawing these … of economics, management and the wider social sciences curious about decision-making procedures"-- …

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Bounded rationality and economic evolution : a contribution to decision making, economics, and management

Tisdell, Clement Allan - 1996

This seminal work advances beyond neoclassical economics to provide an integrated overview of economic decision making …, and the management of bounded rationality and its evolutionary consequences. Clem Tisdell successfully combines recent … managerial phenomena. The results are applied to different levels of decision-making, including decisions by individuals, taking …

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Handbook on the economics of happiness

Bruni, Luigino (contributor); Porta, Pier Luigi (contributor) - 2007

This book is a welcome consolidation and extension of the recent expanding debates on happiness and economics. Happiness and economics, as a new field for research, is now of pivotal interest particularly to welfare economists and psychologists. This Handbook provides an unprecedented forum for...

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The economics of non-selfish behaviour : decisions to contribute money to public goods

Meier, Stephan - 2006

In standard economic theory human beings are portrayed as selfish money-maximizing actors. This book investigates the conditions under which people deviate from this prediction and when they are prepared to contribute to the common good in a more altruistic fashion. Based on field experiments...

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Vilfredo Pareto and the birth of modern microeconomics

Bruni, Luigino - 2002

1. The intellectual evolution of a non-economist : 1890-1900 -- 2. Pareto and Vailati : a forgotten exchange on choice and action -- 3. The methodological dispute between Pareto and Croce -- 4. Guidelines for Paretian methodology -- 5. More wars than peace : Pareto and English economists -- 6. A...

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The economics of sin : rational choice or no choice at all?

Cameron, Samuel - 2002

1. Introduction -- 2. Tools of the trade : rational choice -- 3. Religion -- 4. Greed, lust, sloth and waste -- 5. Envy and jealousy -- 6. Lies and deceit -- 7. Matters of life and death -- 8. Addiction -- 9. Adultery -- 10. Prostitution -- 11. Conclusion.

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Explaining civil war : a rational choice approach

Murshed, Syed Mansoob - 2010

This book explores the pre-conditions for conflict in terms of growth failure and critically appraises the greed and grievance theories common to conflict literature. It is argued that various institutional mechanisms of restraint that can be labeled the 'social contract' are crucial for violent...

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Choice modelling : foundational contributions

Hensher, David A. - 2011

Choose', American Economic Review, 84 (3), June, 419-40 -- Charles F. Manski (1977), 'The Structure of Random Utility Models …', Theory and Decision, 8, 229-54 -- Daniel McFadden (1974), 'Conditional Logit Analysis of Qualitative Choice Behavior', in … the Compatibility of Nested Logit Models with Utility Maximization', Journal of Econometrics, 43 (3), March, 373 …

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Darwinism and economics

Hodgson, Geoffrey Martin - 2009

Behavior and Organization, 53, 3-35 -- Viktor J. Vanberg (2004), 'The Rationality Postulate in Economics: Its Ambiguity, its …

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Capital and uncertainty : the capital investment process in a market economy

Runge, Ian Charles - 2000

This book is an important addition to the emerging body of new work on capital. Its primary contribution is in analysing capital investment choice as a process. The understanding of this process requires some modification and significant extension to the standard neo-classical economic tools....

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