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"This enlightening book comprehensively maps the current state of economic psychology and behavioural economics … economic decisions are made by answering key questions in the bordering field between economics and psychology. Close to the … ecological rationality research program, it presents the main factors that determine economic choices, before exploring the most …
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range of intellectual sources, from naturalistic philosophy and social-psychology to sociology and organisational theory …
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challenging the orthodox content of the idea of rationality, others by providing fresh views on the operation of political …
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consumer psychology and trends. Key Features: More than 90 concise entries that drive both theory and practice. Includes …
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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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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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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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.R. Bush and E. Galanter (eds), Handbook of Mathematical Psychology, Volume III, Wiley, New York. -- Manheim, C.F. (1973 … and Measurement, Heath, Lexington. -- Restle, F. (1961), Psychology of Judgment and Choice, Wiley, New York. -- Rumelhart … Axiom after Twenty Years', Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 15 (3), 215-33 -- John I. Yellott, Jr. (1977), 'The …
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), May, 143-8 -- Leda Cosmides and John Tooby (1994), 'Better than Rational: Evolutionary Psychology and the Invisible Hand … Behavior and Organization, 53, 3-35 -- Viktor J. Vanberg (2004), 'The Rationality Postulate in Economics: Its Ambiguity, its …
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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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