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This title discusses the phenomenon of smoking as a behavioural disease and the associated costs. The author details the consequences of smoking, in addition to the detrimental effects caused by second-hand tobacco smoke exposure as a health risk to children as well as to the general public. The...

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Approximating Prudence : Aristotelian Practical Wisdom and Economic Models of Choice

Yuengert, Andrew M. - 2012

In a unique undertaking, Andrew Yuengert explores and describes the limits to the economic model of the human being, providing an alternative account of human choice, to which economic models can be compared.

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Predictably Rational? : In Search of Defenses for Rational Behavior in Economics

McKenzie, Richard B. - 2010

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Controlling und begrenzte kognitive Fähigkeiten : Grundlagen und Anwendungen eines verhaltensorientierten Ansatzes

Meyer, Matthias - 2011

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Economics for Sustainable Prosperity

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“Steven Hail has coalesced disparate yet interdependent conceptualizations of real world phenomena in a brilliant and crucial way to produce a blueprint for sustainable prosperity. The book is essential reading for anyone searching for an alternative to the mainstream orthodoxy that has played...

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Rethinking Economic Behaviour : How the Economy Really Works

Simpson, David - 2000

Treating the market economy as a complex adaptive system offers a better explanation of how it works than does the mechanical analogy of neoclassical equilibrium theory. The nonlinear interactions of millions of individual human beings, coupled with the influence of chance, result in the...

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Bounded Rationality and Public Policy : A Perspective from Behavioural Economics

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Reference-Dependent Preferences : A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Individual Reference-Point Formation

Stommel, Evelyn - 2013

. Within these situations, the bounded rationality of individuals and institutions towards risk and uncertainty is embedded … rationality of human behavior given certain incentives, preferences, and constraints. Evelyn Stommel investigates a crucial …

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An Experimental Economic Analysis of Banker Behavior

Hülsen, Martin - 2018

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