The intention of this paper is to extend critiques of rationality that have been developed across a range of disciplines and within a number of strands of feminism. Initially providing a brief review of rationality critiques, the paper then focuses on bounded rationality, the key behavioural...

The economic sociology concept of embeddedness represents a valuable conceptualisation for the incorporation of social network interaction into economic theory. This paper utilises embeddedness as the theoretical underpinning to provide a complementary and supplementary explanation to standard...

Economists have progressively recognised the importance of human capital in explaining differences in the economic performance of nations. In the context of the knowledge intensity of today’s global economy, the acquisition of human capital takes on added significance. At the micro level...