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Viennese late enlightenment and the early socialist calculation debates : rationalities and their limits
Linsbichler, Alexander - 2021
conceptions of rationality defended by Neurath and Mises and suggests some consequent insights with respect to Viennese Late … Enlightenment, contemporary rationality wars, the socialist calculation debates, and the foundations of welfare economics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607642
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Under risk, over time, regarding other people : language and rationality within three dimensions
Jullien, Dorian - 2018
This paper conducts a systematic comparison of behavioral economics’s challenges to the standard accounts of economic behaviors within three dimensions: under risk, over time and regarding other people. A new perspective on two underlying methodological issues, i.e., interdisciplinarity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011809698
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Between mathematical formalism, normative choice rules, and the behavioral sciences : the emergence of rational choice theories in the late 1940s and early 1950s
Herfeld, Catherine - 2017
This paper discusses why mathematical economists of the early Cold War period favored formal-axiomatic over behavioral choice theories. One reason was that formal-axiomatic theories allowed mathematical economists to improve the conceptual and theoretical foundations of economics and thereby to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011759791
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Capabilities for the miserable : happiness for the satisfied
Edwards, José M.; Pellé, Sophie - 2011
The aim of this paper is to explain the process of diversification of normative economics by presenting the work of two authors: Tibor Scitovsky [1910-2002] and Amartya Sen [1933-]. While these two authors first contributed to traditional welfare analysis from within, they were subsequently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011708267
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Popper's "rationality principle" reconsidered
Palacio Vera, Alfonso; Ayala, Iván H. - 2016
Popper recognizes that there are, at least, two versions of his "Rationality Principle" (RP) yet he does not explain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011609744
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Game theory and cold war rationality : a review essay
Weintraub, Eliot Roy - 2016
This essay reviews new histories of the role of game theory and rational decision-making in shaping the social sciences, economics among them, in the post war period. The recent books The World the Game Theorists Made by Paul Erickson and How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind by Paul Erickson, Judy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598915
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Implementation rationality : the nexus of psychology and economics at the RAND logistics systems laboratory, 1956-1966s
Klein, Judy L. - 2015 - Version 3
ually the interests of society. This dilemma was one of a few stimuli ge nerating a new focal point for rationality, that of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600635
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Kinds of scientific rationalism : the case for methodological liberalism
Scheall, Scott - 2015 - Draft as of 5/21/2015
scientific rationality. If science is complex in Hayek's sense, then scientific belief may be rational in more than one way. It … is argued that a failure to recognize the possibility of multiple kinds of scientific rationality contributes to an error … that, where ecological rationality is operative, rational belief requires an element of methodological liberty. It is shown …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602806
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Rational expectations : retrospect and prospect
Lovell, Michael C. (panelist); Lucas, Robert E. (panelist);  … - 2011
The transcript of a panel discussion marking the fiftieth anniversary of John Muth's "Rational Expectations and the Theory of Price Movements" (Econometrica 1961). The panel consists of Michael Lovell, Robert Lucas, Dale Mortensen, Robert Shiller, and Neil Wallace. The discussion is moderated by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603748
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From theories of human behavior to rules of rational choice : tracing a normative turn at the cowles commission, 1943-1954
Herfeld, Catherine - 2017
now meant to represent the basic demands of rationality, while theories of rational decision-making specified rules of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011759965