methodology of health care evaluation. Weaknesses within the theoretical basis of standard health economist's evaluations, well …

This paper shows that the means-end rationality principle, as an ‘ultimate given’ of economics, delimits the faculty of …

This paper discusses various meanings of rationality distinguished by Schumpeter – as well as related concepts like … the notions of ‘rationality of the observer’ and ‘rationality in the observed’, developed in his article on 'The Meaning … of Rationality in the Social Sciences'. Schumpeter’s thesis of the obsolescence of the entrepreneurial function is also …

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 …

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 …

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 …