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Large effects of small cues : priming selfish economic decisions
Snir, Avichai; Levy, Dudi; Wang, Dian; Chen, Haipeng; … - 2024 - Revised: April 21, 2024
Many experimental studies report that economics students tend to act more selfishly than students of other disciplines, a finding that received widespread public and professional attention. Two main explanations that the existing literature offers for the differences found in the behavior...
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Evolutionary economics and household behavior
Horioka, Charles - 2014
neoclassical assumption of selfish utility maximization with bounded rationality and satisficing and by incorporating the reaction …
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Anchoring in economics : on Frey and Gallus on the aggregation of behavioural anomalies
Earl, Peter E. - 2014
This paper examines the research area identified by Frey and Gallus (Aggregate Effects of Behavioral Anomalies: A New Research Area, 2014) and the relationship between it and the choices that economists make. It supports the Frey and Gallus view that, as a consequence of individuals employing...
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Beyond quantified ignorance : rebuilding rationality without the bias bias
Brighton, Henry - 2019
If we reassess the rationality question under the assumption that the uncertainty of the natural world is largely … theory of ecological rationality. The main casualty of this rebuilding process is optimality. Once we view optimality as a … formal implication of quantified uncertainty rather than an ecologically meaningful objective, the rationality question …
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Behavioral public choice : a survey
Schnellenbach, Jan; Schubert, Christian - 2014
Public choice theory has originally been motivated by the need to correct the asymmetry, widespread in traditional welfare economics, between the motivational assumptions of market participants and policymakers: Those who played the game of politics should also be considered rational and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238281
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Behavioral political economy : a survey
Schnellenbach, Jan; Schubert, Christian - 2014
Explaining individual behavior in politics should rely on the same motivational assumptions as explaining behavior in the market: That’s what Political Economy, understood as the application of economics to the study of political processes, is all about. In its standard variant, those who...
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Under risk, over time, regarding other people : language and rationality within three dimensions
Jullien, Dorian - 2018
This paper conducts a systematic comparison of behavioral economics’s challenges to the standard accounts of economic behaviors within three dimensions: under risk, over time and regarding other people. A new perspective on two underlying methodological issues, i.e., interdisciplinarity and...
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Professional norms and physician behavior : homo oeconomicus or homo hippocraticus?
Kesternich, Iris; Schumacher, Heiner; Winter, Joachim - 2014
Physicians' treatment decisions determine the level of health care spending to a large extent. The analysis of physician agency describes how doctors trade off their own and their patients' benefits, with a third party (such as the collective of insured individuals or the taxpayers) bearing the...
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The rise of behavioural economics : a quantitative assessment
Geiger, Niels - 2015 - September 15th 2014
This paper is devoted to the question of operationalising the development of behavioural economics, focussing on trends in the academic literature. The main research goal is to provide a quantitative assessment in order to answer the question of whether or not behavioural economics has gained in...
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How everyday ethics becomes a moral economy, and vice versa
Keane, Webb - 2019
rationality and relationships among persons - organ donation and sex work. The paper argues that the inherent value accorded to … reasoning are not flaws but part of the core functions of rationality. …
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