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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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Knowledge, beliefs and economics

Festré, Agnès (contributor); Arena, Richard (contributor) - 2006

This book surveys how economists engage with knowledge and beliefs in various fields of economic analysis, such as …pt. 1. Knowledge and beliefs in the history of economic analysis : Marshallians, Austrians and Walrasians -- pt. 2 …. Knowledge and beliefs in game theory -- pt. 3. Beliefs and decision theory -- pt. 4. Knowledge, beliefs and cognitive economics …

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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 … the general issues surrounding economic choices, such as preferences, beliefs and emotions, and on the heuristic …

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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

Choice modelling is an area of growing popularity as many researchers and consultants seek to find better ways to explain the choices made by individuals, households and firms in many application contexts such as transportation, health services, environmental science, marketing, finance,...

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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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