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Pittel, Karen; Rübbelke, Dirk - 2009

just obeying and, hence, to be irrational. In this paper we offer a different approach which postulates rationality of all …

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Decision Processes of a Suicide Bomber – Integrating Economics and Psychology

Pittel, Karen; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2009

This paper provides a theoretical analysis regarding the rationality of suicide attacks from an economist’s point of … psychological concepts of cognitive dissonance and terror management theory into our economic analysis, we demonstrate why … – although predicted by standard economic theory – defection is a phenomenon rarely observed. We finally present some policy …

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Sozialstruktur und Semantik - Ordonomik als Forschungsprogramm in der modernen (Welt-)Gesellschaft

Pies, Ingo; Beckmann, Markus; Hielscher, Stefan - 2009

Gesellschaftstheoretiker wie der Soziologe Niklas Luhmann machen darauf aufmerksam, dass es in der modernen Gesellschaft zu systematischen Diskrepanzen zwischen Semantik und Sozialstruktur kommt. Solche Diskrepanzen – also Fälle, in denen Sozialstruktur und Semantik nicht zueinander passen...

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Das ordonomische Forschungsprogramm

Pies, Ingo - 2009

Dieser Beitrag stellt unter der Bezeichnung „Ordonomik“ ein Forschungsprogramm vor, das ursprünglich im Bereich der Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik entstanden ist und nunmehr allgemein gesellschaftstheoretisch als institutionalistisch ausgerichteter Rational- Choice-Ansatz zur Analyse...

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The political economy of emission tax design in environmental policy

Glachant, Matthieu - 2002

In actual environmental policy, the design of actual pollution emission taxes differs significantly with the optimal Pigovian tax. In particular, earmarking prevails and actual taxes are usually combined with regulation. Furthermore tax rates are generally too low to significantly influence...

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The Political Economy of a Publicly Provided Private Good with Adverse Selection

Delipalla, Sophia; O'Donnell, Owen - 1999

Given heterogeneity in incomes and health risks, with asymmetric information in the latter, preferences over the public-private mix in health insurance and care are derived. Results concerning crowding-out in the presence of adverse selection are established. For low-risk individuals,...

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A multiplicity of approaches to institutional analysis : applications to the government and the arts

Frey, Bruno S. - 2009

Four types of economics" relevant for institutional analysis are distinguished: Standard Neoclassical Economics; Socio-Economics or Social Economics; New Institutional Economics; and Psychological Economics (often misleadingly called Behavioural Economics). The paper argues that an extension of...

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Subjective rationality. The search for visually perceivable principles of order in urban research until 1975

Brünenberg, Stefanie - In: sub\urban : Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung 10 (2022) 2/3, pp. 43-69

"spatial value number" reveals the incompatibility of rationality and aesthetics: the individual urban experience cannot be …

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Determinants of the influence of voters and interest groups on the political decision making process

Bischoff, Ivo - 2001

This paper provides a comprehensive theoretical model of the political decision making process. Therein two ideologically different political parties compete for power. Their primary instrument in this competition are programmatic concessions in favor of voters and interest groups. As any...

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Models of political economy

Nurmi, Hannu - 2006

theories as well as new developments including: decision theory game theory mechanism design games of asymmetric information …

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