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The World According to GARP* : Non-parametric Tests of Demand Theory and Rational Behavior
Diaye, Marc-Arthur; Gardes, François; Starzec, Christophe - HAL - 2008
The purpose of this paper is twofold. We first point out that violation of rationality axioms (SARP, GARP, WARP) do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643767
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Rationality, behavior, institutional and economic change in Schumpeter
Festré, Agnès; Garrouste, Pierre - HAL - 2008
In 1940 Schumpeter wrote a paper entitled: "The Meaning of Rationality in the Social Sciences", which was intended to …, that he took the initiative to start. In this paper Schumpeter develops thoroughly his own conception of rationality in … indeed interestingly anticipates some important debates concerning the problem of rationality and behavior in economics and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738554
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On Apparent Irrational Behaviors : Interacting Structures and the Mind
Gosselin, Pierre; Lotz, Aïleen; Wambst, Marc - HAL - 2013
We develop a general method to solve models of interactions between multiple and possibly strategic agents. Our model explains apparently irrational or biased behaviors in a person. We argue that these actions could result from several rational structures having different goals. Our main example...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899628
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La croissance économique au passé, au présent, à l'avenir
Bienaymé, Alain - HAL - 2014
After a few centuries of speeding up, the distribution of GNP's growth rates has widely changed all round the world. Growth is slowing down in advanced countries and has accelerated in emerging countries. Moreover growth is questioned as a matter of principle. Considering the vast array of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899774
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Why Rationality May Be a Consequence of Hume's Theory of Choice
Diaye, Marc-Arthur; Lapidus, André - HAL - 2005
Facing R. Sugden's criticism of our interpretation, it is shown in this paper that rationality appears as a possible … rationality through which Hume's theory is apprehended, is highly disputable, from the point of view of both standard choice … theory and Hume's theory of passions. Nonetheless, Sugden's criterion of rationality might be restated in Humean terms as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789356
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Creative rationality and design education: Towards a pedagogy of adventure
Forest, Joelle; Faucheux, Michel - HAL - 2009
science and, thus, has neglected a specific kind of rationality (the “creative rationality”). Integrating this kind of … rationality in the design education drives us to invent“pedagogy of the adventure”. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789399
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Pleasure and belief in Hume's decision process
Diaye, Marc-Arthur; Lapidus, André - HAL - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to introduce explicitly pleasure and belief in what aims at being a Humean theory of decision, like the one developed in Diaye and Lapidus (2005a). Although we support the idea that Hume was in some way a hedonist – evidently different from Bentham's or Jevons' way...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790780
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A Humean Theory of Choice of which Rationality May Be One Consequence
Diaye, Marc-Arthur; Lapidus, André - HAL - 2005
not seem to have given any evidence which would favour what we nowadays consider as the kind of rationality involved in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791484
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Cross-talk in economics and neuroscience
Bourgeois-Gironde, Sacha; Schoonover, Carl - HAL - 2008
Neuroeconomics is a recent extension of behavioral economics which aims at uncovering the brain mechanisms and activities that mediate regular and anomalous behaviour. Gul and Pesendorfer (2005) have launched a critique against the neuroeconomic research program, based on what they argue is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792335
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Pleasure and belief in Hume's decision process
Diaye, Marc-Arthur; Lapidus, André - HAL - 2009
The purpose of this paper is to introduce explicitly pleasure and belief in what aims at being a Humean theory of decision, like the one developed in Diaye and Lapidus (2005a). Although we support the idea that Hume was in some way – evidently different from Bentham's or Jevons' way – a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793170