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This paper discusses the ways by which a certain type of behavioral deviation from expected utility theory has been … handled by psychologists and economists. With respect to the historical background of decision theory in economics, it is …
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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 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213706
on bounded rationality; neoinstitutionalism and ethical economics preserve the concept of rationality in the theory … terms of hierarchical analysis. Behavioral economics denies the idea of economic agents rationality; evolutionism is based … developing criteria for rationality of higher orders (metarationality). Evolutionism rejects neoclassical economics and suggests …
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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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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 emotions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266609
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 biological-evolutionary perspective. The reinterpretation of Marshall's theory in a …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418485
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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