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Hodgson, Geoffrey M. - 2009

Altruism', Science, 250, December, 1665-8 -- Paul A. Samuelson (1993), 'The Economics of Altruism: Altruism as a Problem … Behavior and Organization, 53, 3-35 -- Viktor J. Vanberg (2004), 'The Rationality Postulate in Economics: Its Ambiguity, its …), 'Darwinism, Altruism and Economics', in Kurt Dopfer (ed) (ed.), The Evolutionary Foundations of Economics, Chapter 4, Cambridge …

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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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Modeling rational agents : from interwar economics to early modern game theory

Giocoli, Nicola - 2003

rationality. The analysis begins with the development of modern decision theory, covers the interwar debates over the role of … that the notion of rationality suffered a profound transformation that reduced it to a formal property of consistency. Such …

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

Tisdell, Clement Allan - 1996

, and the management of bounded rationality and its evolutionary consequences. Clem Tisdell successfully combines recent … organizations. Bounded Rationality and Economic Evolution will be of particular use to economists, academics in management, business …

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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 …

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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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Handbook of economics and ethics

Staveren, Irene van (contributor); Peil, Jan (contributor) - 2009

1. Altruism / Jonathan Seglow -- 2. Thomas Aquinas / Odd Langholm -- 3. Aristotle / Ricardo Crespo -- 4. Jeremy Bentham … -- 51. Poverty / Andy Sumner -- 52. Prices / Paul Downward -- 53. Protestant ethics / William Schweiker -- 54. Rationality …

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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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Elgar companion to Herbert Simon

Gigerenzer, Gerd (ed.); Modarres-Mousavi, Shabnam (ed.); … - 2024

Computer Science. Bounded rationality, satisficing and heuristic search are just a few of his seminal ideas that pioneered …

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