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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 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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For non-economists, it is often difficult to understand why economists place so much emphasis on the self-interest motive. It is obvious that people act out of a variety of motives - gratitude, anger, social obligation and many, many other motives. There are several reasons why economists still...
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theory of ecological rationality. The main casualty of this rebuilding process is optimality. Once we view optimality as a …If we reassess the rationality question under the assumption that the uncertainty of the natural world is largely … formal implication of quantified uncertainty rather than an ecologically meaningful objective, the rationality question …
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theory of ecological rationality. The main casualty of this rebuilding process is optimality. Once we view optimality as a …If we reassess the rationality question under the assumption that the uncertainty of the natural world is largely … formal implication of quantified uncertainty rather than an ecologically meaningful objective, the rationality question …
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rationality behaviour by people. Quite recent developments in the Economics of Knowledge, i.e. the so-called learning models, have …
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We analyze differences in consumption and wealth that arise because of different degrees of rationality of households … other fraction possesses less cognitive ability. We identify the rationality bias of boundedly rational agents, defined as a … rationality bias can be decomposed into three individual components: the consumption expectation bias, the real interest rate bias …
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We analyze differences in consumption and wealth that arise because of different degrees of rationality of households … other fraction possesses less cognitive ability. We identify the rationality bias of boundedly rational agents, defined as a … rationality bias can be decomposed into three individual components: the consumption expectation bias, the real interest rate bias …
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Recent theoretical and empirical work characterizes attention as a limited resource that decision-makers strategically allocate. There has been less research on the dynamic interdependence of attention: how paying attention now may affect performance later. In this paper, we exploit...
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