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

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 …

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

Starting from Amartya Sen's works on rational behaviour, in this essay a contextually-embedded choice theory is … presented. Using concepts and tools from poset mathematics, we show how to inject in rational choice theory cultural and social …

Vertragsparität. Dabei wird auf die ökonomische Verhandlungstheorie und die Theorie der Wettbewerbsmärkte zurückgegriffen. Es werden …Based on economic bargaining theory and the theory of competitive markets, the paper operationalizes the legal term …

We develop a multi-agent framework based on probabilistic cellular automata theory to describe off-equilibrium dynamics … on the other players rationality is addressed within our multi-agent framework. We find that, if costs/payoffs act as …