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individuals is the most relevant message conveyed by the General Theory. This paper starts off from a brief summary of Akerlof and … concentrates on Keynes’s Treatise on Probability and discusses how Keynes applied his philosophy of probability to decision … agents behave under uncertainty, and that the violations of the Bayesian creed scrutinized in behavioural finance, and in …
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criticism of contemporary probability theory. Through an assessment of Keynes's examination of “the application of probability … scientific journals, a crowd of commentators has emphasised the need to scrutinise the General Theory in order to gain a better … Keynesian explanation of the actual behaviour of individual agents is to be based more on the Treatise on Probability than on …
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Following a long-standing philosophical tradition, impartiality is a distinctive and determining feature of moral judgements, especially in matters of distributive justice. This broad ethical tradition was revived in welfare economics by Vickrey, and aboce all, Harsanyi, under the form of the...
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"classical" view of uncertainty (Knight, Keynes, Shackle and Davidson) that a "modern" approach to uncertainty could originally …The purpose of this paper is to discuss the uncertainty concept through a reconstitution of the ways in which this … notion emerges in the works by Knight, Keynes, Shackle and Davidson. It focuses on the uniqueness of each approach. It is …
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The aim of this piece is to discuss in what extent one can find - in the works of Shackle and Davidson - an … understanding of uncertainty capable of both comprehend the concept of probable knowledge and admit the existence of degrees of … 'true uncertainty'. Sharing the opinion of other scholars (Runde, 1990; Dow, 1995, and Dequech, 1997), we think that it is …
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This study sums up a circumstances related to motivation of SMEs for internationalization process. It provides overview of certain essential areas like European Charter for Small Enterprises, Legislation harmonization etc. The article also provides insights in the ICT sphere as opportunity for...
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trade theory. Analyzing arguments made by international economists from the perspective of political philosophy, I show how …
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contributions for heterodox production theory. Furthermore, it will be argued that models which consist of elements of hierarchial …
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A pesar de los múltiples avances y modificaciones que ha sufrido la teoría microeconómicaneoclásica, sus dos modelos canónicos continúan siendo el de equilibrio parcial y el de equilibriogeneral. Contrario a lo que habitualmente se expone, existe abundante literatura que...
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Keynes and Simon traverse all two, fifty year from distance, an epistemologically similar way. Both work out a theory … theory leads them to become aware of the role of the institutions on the cognitive and coordinating level. Finally their two …
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