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We develop a model in which agents choose whether to achieve self-esteem through work. When they do, they develop an intrinsic motivtion to effort. Depending on the characteristics of the job to be filled, an employer may try, or not, to encourage this intrinsic motivation by an adequately...
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preferences. Hence, the Robinson case naturally satisfies this property since nor Robinson neither Friday can disagree with …
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Based on Hume's major philosophical works and on some of his Essays, this paper discusses formally the feasibility …. It is shown that both the intertemporal structure of the problem and the role that Hume granted to the ‘calm passion …
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consequence of Hume's theory of choice. We first argue that Sugden's dismissal of the preference relation from the type of … 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 …
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The question of choice, in Hume's works, lies within the more general framework of the theory of passions. These lead … indiscrimination and intertemporal choice. This discrepancy is explained by Hume's distinction between pleasure as a feeling and … from the discussion of the ‘mixed' passions of hope and of fear. On first view, Hume's writings seem to give credit to …
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decision, like the one developed in Diaye and Lapidus (2005a). Although we support the idea that Hume was in some way a … hedonism encountered in Hume's writings (chiefly the Treatise, the second Enquiry, the Dissertation, or some of his Essays … utility. The reason for such a difference with the usual approach lies in the mental process that Hume puts to the fore in …
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Morals (1751), in the Dissertation on the Passions (1757), and in some of the Essays (1777), this paper is built upon Hume … valuation only coincides with interest in the case of what Hume called a “calm passion”, which gives birth to the greatest …
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For the reader who considers economic theory of choice as a special case of a more general theory of action, Hume …), and in the Dissertation on Passions (1757), deserves attention. However, according to some modern commentators, Hume does … process, described by means of a decision algorithm which aims at representing Hume's theory of choice. …
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decision, like the one developed in Diaye and Lapidus (2005a). Although we support the idea that Hume was in some way … hedonism encountered in Hume's writings (chiefly the Treatise, the second Enquiry, the Dissertation, or some of his Essays … utility. The reason for such a difference with the usual approach lies in the mental process that Hume puts to the fore in …
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cadre de la théorie néo institutionnaliste, l'influence de trois niveaux de contexte sur ce processus d'appropriation : le … forte influence du contexte social sur l'appropriation des pratiques : elle peut être positive, lorsque les valeurs sous …-jacentes à la pratique entrent en cohérence avec le contexte social, ou négative, si ces valeurs s'y heurtent. Aussi, l'appropriation …
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