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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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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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how the imperfections of human rationality shape individual decisions and behaviors, the implications of these … rationally (in the sense of rational choice theory) pursuing them. This leads to a certain skepticism towards the idealization of … democracy as human rationality in pursuit of the common good, which serves to provide cover for those who profit from the …
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technological evolution; (ii) The theory of the firm in evolving environments; (iii) The formalization of learning processes; (iv …) the theory of production; (v) consumption patterns; (vi) economic interactions and the working of markets; and, (vii) The …
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is inertia or resistance to change. Transition policy needs to account for the bounded rationality and social interaction … insights from the literatures on agency in sustainability transitions, on environmental policy under bounded rationality and …
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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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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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This work challenges the very notion of bounded rationality as dangerously too near to some "unbounded rationality …" used as a benchmark. Should we assume that there is an "unbounded" rationality as a benchmark? Should one start, in order … of more or less significant deviations from the "Olympic rationality". On the contrary, we suggest, human beings and …
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