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The paper critically discusses the issue of rationality and choices in economics in both the behavioural and … the analysis of economic choices, showing the limits of rationality. On the other hand, the work offers a reinterpretation … of the theory of Alfred Marshall in a biologicalevolutionary perspective. The reinterpretation of Marshall's theory in a …
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This paper tests whether changes in “incidental emotions” lead to changes in economic choices. Incidental emotions are experienced at the time of an economic decision but are not part of the payoff from a particular choice. As such, the standard economic model predicts that incidental...
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This paper provides an introduction to the field of evolutionary economics with emphasis on the evolutionary theory of … evolutionary theory of household behavior is to improve upon the neoclassical theory of household behavior by replacing the … neoclassical assumption of selfish utility maximization with bounded rationality and satisficing and by incorporating the reaction …
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The paper discusses the concept of an economic man in economics and management. The concept of “homo oeconomicus” assumes the full rational behaviour of a deciding man and was applied in classical and neoclassical theories. Based on resent findings of the neuronal, cognitive and behavioural...
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subjects are time-inconsistent and most violate the axioms of expected utility theory. These inconsistencies cannot be … explained by well-known theories of behavioral inconsistency, such as hyperbolic discounting and cumulative prospect theory … inconsistency and total payoffs are reported. Time-inconsistent subjects and those who violate expected utility theory both earn …
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lens of another opposition in the philosophy of probability and in probability theory, between Bayesianism and frequentism … programs - Heuristics and Biases and Ecological Rationality - which play respective roles in the foundations of individual … rationality in BE and EME. To understand these theoretical interrelationships, we investigate the 1996 controversy between …
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