My philosophical case study concerns textbook presentations of the theory of demand. Does this theory contain anything …. But then, the theory implies false factual claims. We can avoid this result by embracing the theory’s normative character … of physics by Oliver Timmer. Applying his ideas to the theory of demand reveals that the statements of this discipline …

rationality. The cooperative’sdecision making process has found mechanisms to adapt to the dictates of the market economy …

exchange networks and expected exchange rates. I consider a theory that reasonably predicts this relationship in a handful of …

accordance with some rationality postulate. We offer an alternative nonlinear model where agents exchange their opinions and …

other hand, have not been successful in incorporating both individual rationality and inter-individual heterogeneity …

of the commons.' This dissertation combines the tools of game theory and experimental methods to gain a broader …

% of the subjects behave consistently with a predictive model based on private rationality (Nash) and 21% of the subjects … behave consistently with a predictive model based on social rationality. In the CPR appropriation experiments, 74% of the … subjects behave consistently with a predictive model based on private rationality and 5% of the subjects behave consistently …

"In past contributions to CPR theory, the issue of salience/dependence on a resource has been flagged up as a one of a … high. However, cases do exist of CPRs in which this assumption does not hold, and consequently, related theory proves to be … into question the possibility and utility of constructing a coherent CPR meta-theory." …