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Statistical foundations of ecological rationality

Brighton, Henry - 2020

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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Economic Consequences of Mispredicting Utility

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2008

A framework is proposed for organizing phenomena related to the (mis)prediction of utility, in particular neglecting adaptation. A categorization is introduced that accounts for asymmetries in misprediction. In decision-making, goods and activities satisfying extrinsic desires are more salient...

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Information technologies and subjective well-being: Does the internet raise material aspirations?

Lohmann, Steffen - 2013

Existing work on the economics of well-being suggests that a person's subjective well-being depends to a large degree on his relative standing within his social environment. In this paper, we examine whether access to modern information and telecommunication technologies has an impact on...

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Sociology of sociology: Strengthening the role of social sciences as a new priority of climate and sustainability policy

Strzałkowski, Andrzej - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 16 (2016) 3, pp. 453-468

Today, there are a lot of studies on climate change and sustainability from social sciences' perspectives. Achievements of sociology, psychology or political sciences can be extremely helpful in designing, adopting, implementing and evaluating of effective climate and sustainability policy....

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A note on the relationship between television viewing and individual happiness

Kataria, Mitesh; Regner, Tobias - 2009

In a recently published article, Bruni and Stanca (2008) suggest that television viewing has a negative impact on life satisfaction. In this note we argue that the empirical approach they use (an approach that omits the main effect of TV viewing in life satisfaction) is problematic. We estimate...

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Consumer choice under certainty and uncertainty in applied econometrics

Stigum, Bernt P. - 2021

The paper lists salient characteristics of the certainty theory of consumer choice and discusses the import of prominent empirical analyses of the theory. All of them reject the theory's empirical relevance which suggests that the theory is unfit to analyze consumer choice in an uncertain world....

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Polit-ökonomische Aspekte des Berichts zur Lage der Verbraucher:innen

Wagner, Gert G. - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 101 (2021) 6, pp. 473-480

Der Sachverständigenrat für Verbraucherfragen hat erstmals ein breit angelegtes Gutachten zur Lage der Verbraucher:innen in Deutschland vorgelegt. Gert G. Wagner, Mitglied im Sachverständigenrat für Verbraucherfragen, stellt aus seiner persönlichen Sicht ausgewählte Analysen, Ergebnisse...

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Efecto precio e ingreso en el consumo de bienes adictivos en México: Un análisis espacial

Villagra Piña, Juan Alberto - In: Atlantic Review of Economics (ARoEc) 5 (2022) 1, pp. 1-31

cross - section to the data set to prove Becker, Grossman and Murphy's (1991) "economic rationality" theory on addictive …

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Competitividad de México en la producción de carne de pollo en el mundo de 2005 a 2017

Leyva, Carlos Enrique; Alonzo Solís, Juan Felipe; … - In: Atlantic Review of Economics (ARoEc) 5 (2022) 1

This work evaluate both the position and trend of the com petitiveness of Mexican chicken meat carcass against the external supply, and the relationship between this commercial advantage, production and national export allowing to propose strategies that leverage the poultry production in the...

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Conspicuous consumption for social parity

Srikanth, Chinmayi; Dey, Shubhasis - 2023

The extant literature on status-signalling primarily adopts Veblen's theory of class to caste and racial identities. This study aims to adopt a more suitable theoretical lens that is more relevant not only for class identities, but also for other identities such as caste and race. By viewing...

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