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We analyze Assessment Voting, a new two-round voting procedure that can be applied to binary decisions in democratic societies. In the first round, a randomly-selected number of citizens cast their vote on one of the two alternatives at hand, thereby irrevocably exercising their right to vote....
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choice theory as the reference point for judging the quality of real-world decisions. It argues that choice is an activity …
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choice theory as the reference point for judging the quality of real-world decisions. It argues that choice is an activity …
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The Homo economicus of traditional economics is far from being completely self-interested, rational, or as individualistic as he is purported to be; he will haggle to death over price but will not take what he wants by force. Implicitly, he is assumed to behave ruthlessly within a welldefined...
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another sense, it is concerned with bounded rationality as a means of the policy, and in still another sense, it is concerned … with bounded rationality as an obstacle to be removed by the policy, when the latter has a benevolent aim. The paper … behavioural economics, compared with that of classical rational choice theory, to account for successful interventions. After …
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only infer what they like from observing what they do. We must be content with revealed preference. The theory of choice is … orderly and consistent is of little practical help. In its elegance, modern choice theory, as represented in neoclassical …
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opportunities translates into a weakening of the McFadden-Richter axiom of stochastic rationality, and gives an upper bound for the …
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Contrary to modern democracies ancient Athens appointed large numbers of government officers by lot. After describing the Athenian arrangements, the paper reviews the literature on the choice between election and lot focusing on representativeness of the population, distributive justice,...
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Some positions within an organization wield unusual impact over the entity's success. The decision makers who hire these critical performers face a daunting task: to distinguish among closely comparable finalists in a context where small differences in talent can produce enormous outcome...
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Economists have used the term “nonbinary” to describe both choice functional nonbinariness (choice functions that cannot be rationalized as the maximizing outcome of a binary preference relation) and structural nonbinariness (the structure of the model dictates that pairs of alternatives do...
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