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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 …. The resulting consequences will be illuminated with the new autodetermination thesis recently proposed in the philosophy …
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Wie müsste eine faire Lösung des Klimaproblems aussehen? Wie sollten wir Pflichten und finanzielle Lasten der nötigen CO2-Reduktionen verteilen, wenn es dabei gerecht zugehen soll und keiner übervorteilt werden darf? In meiner Antwort auf diese ethischen Fragen stütze ich mich auf einen...
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A prominent feature of the management ? and increasingly marketing ? literature is offering normative prescriptions to corporate strategists for maximizing profits. However, with few exceptions, the ethicality of various profit making strategies has not been analysed or debated. Building upon...
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Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Marktprozesstheorie (Österreichische Schule der Nationalökonomie) - eine Theorie, die die Rolle der …" - which emphasises the coordinating role of information (mostly via price-signals) in dynamic markets - as a general marketing-theory …. At first, this thesis describes different concepts and problems toward marketing and marketing-theory. Then …
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The application of rational choice to non-market decision making has revolutionizedcomparative economics. A fruitful methodological symmetry now prevails in theanalysis of economic systems, emphasizing how their underlying institutions affectindividual incentives. Most importantly, comparative...
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elds of growth anddevelopment may in fact serve as a guide for the remaking of business cycle theory.Drawing on a Kohn …'Driscoll (1977) and Leijonhufvud (1981), primarily with respect to discoordinationbusiness cycle theory and their explanation of … methodologically and theoretically better grounded. The rst essay traces the historyof growth theory and development up to the recent …
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When faced with Duhemian problems of underdetermination, scientific method suggests neither a circumvention of such difficulties via the uncritical acceptance of background assumptions, nor the employment of epistemically unsatisfying subjectivist models of rational retainment. Instead,...
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I argue that uncomputable formal problems are intuitively, mathematically, and methodologically analogous to empirical problems in which Hume’s problem of induction arises. In particular, 11 I show that a version of Ockham’s razor (a preference for simple answers) is advantageous in both...
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This paper contrasts two approaches to agentive self-awareness: a high-level, narrative-based account, and a low-level comparator-based account. We argue that an agent's narrative self-conception has a role to play in explaining their agentive judgments, but that agentive experiences are...
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