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We challenge the standard definition of economic rationality as consistency by making use of a novel distinction … evidence raises doubts about the choice of language that equates consistency with rationality in economics. … between axioms of decision theory: consistency and preference axioms. We argue that this distinction has been overlooked by …
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How do human beings make decisions when, as the evidence indicates, the assumptions of the Bayesian rationality … rationality, with particular emphasis on growing formalization of those departures, which add necessary precision. We also explore … the relationship between bounded rationality and libertarian paternalism, or nudges, and show that some recent objections …
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Predictable polarization is everywhere. We can often predict the different directions that people’s opinions—including our own—will shift over time. Empirical studies suggest that this is so whenever evidence is ambiguous, a fact that’s often thought to demonstrate human bias or...
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We axiomatize a new class of recursive dynamic models that capture subjective constraints on the amount of information a decision maker can obtain, pay attention to, or absorb, via a Markov Decision Process for Information Choice (MIC). An MIC is a subjective decision process that specifies what...
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Beliefs are intuitive if they rely on associative memory, which can be described as a network of associations between events. A belief-theoretic characterization of the model is provided, its uniqueness properties are established, and the intersection with the Bayesian model is characterized....
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We use a simple cost-benefit analysis to derive optimal similarity judgments - addressing the question: when should we expect a decision maker to distinguish between different time periods or different prizes? Our key premise is that cognitive resources are costly and are to be deployed only...
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In the philosophy of economics, the last fifteen years have witnessed an intense discussion about the epistemological status of economic models of decision making and their theoretical components, such as the concept of preference. In this article I offer a selective review of this discussion...
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