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Predictably Rational? : In Search of Defenses for Rational Behavior in Economics
McKenzie, Richard B. - 2010
Economists’ “Irrational Passion for Dispassionate Rationality” -- The Methodological Constraints on the Rationality … Premise -- Human Motivation and Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hands” -- Rationality in Economic Thought: From Thomas Robert Malthus … to Alfred Marshall and Philip Wicksteed -- Rationality in Economic Thought: Frank Knight, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013521297
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The Manipulation of Choice : Ethics and Libertarian Paternalism
White, Mark D. - 2013
This timely book makes a forceful argument that the analyses from behavioral economists are incomplete, the policies advocated by libertarian paternalists are misguided and unethical, and both actually reinforce the cognitive biases and dysfunctions that motivate 'nudges' in the first place. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106389
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Enacting Dismal Science : New Perspectives on the Performativity of Economics
Boldyrev, Ivan A. (ed.); Svetlova, Ekaterina (ed.) - 2016
; Philip Roscoe -- 7 The IS-LMization of the General Theory and the Construction of Hydraulic Governability in Postwar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398043
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Communication and Economic Theory : How to deal with rationality in a communicational environment
Priddat, Birger P. - 2014
diversified language game landscape -- 7 Rationality, hermeneutics, and communicational processes. On L. Lachmann's approach of …’s economics actor theory, and Douglas North’s emphasis on communication being a process of building ‘shared mental models’, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014020945
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Individual and Collective Choice and Social Welfare : Essays in Honor of Nick Baigent
Binder, Constanze - 2015
Part I: Individual Choice and Rationality -- Part II: Collective Choice and Collective Rationality -- Part III: Social … of social welfare. The topics include individual and collective rationality, motivation and intention in economics …, coercion, public goods, climate change, and voting theory. The book offers an excellent overview over latest research in these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014019526
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The Economics of Addictive Behaviours Volume I : The Private and Social Costs of Smoking and Their Remedies
Joshua, John - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397413
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Models, Methods, Concepts & Applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process
Saaty, Thomas L. - 2012 - 2nd ed. 2012
How to Make a Decision -- The Seven Pillars of the Analytic Hierarchy Process -- Architectural Design -- Why is the Principal Eigenvector Necessary? -- Designing a Mousetrap -- Designing the Best Catamaran -- The Selection of a Bridge -- Measuring Dependence Between Activities: Input Output...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014015858
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Complexity and Artificial Markets
Schredelseker, Klaus (contributor);  … - 2008
In recent years, agent-based simulation has become a widely accepted tool when dealing with complexity in economics and other social sciences. The contributions presented in this book apply agent-based methods to derive results from complex models related to market mechanisms, evolution,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013521004
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Controlling und begrenzte kognitive Fähigkeiten : Grundlagen und Anwendungen eines verhaltensorientierten Ansatzes
Meyer, Matthias - 2011
Controlling sichert die Rationalität der Unternehmensführung. Wie genau können dann aber Rationalitätsdefizite im Rahmen der Unternehmensführung greifbar gemacht werden? Die Beitragsautoren wählen in diesem Werk die Methode der abnehmenden Abstraktion von Siegwart M. Lindenberg als...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014425140
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Rational Choice and Social Welfare : Theory and Applications Essays in Honor of Kotaro Suzumura
Salles, M.; Pattanaik, Prasanta K.; Suzumura, K.; … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013521037