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It’s the weather, stupid! Individual participation in collective May Day demonstrations

Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We investigate the possible explanations of variations in aggregate levels of participation in large-scale political demonstrations. A simple public choice inspired model is applied to data derived from the annual May Day demonstrations of the Danish labour movement and socialist parties taking...

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Why Rationality May Be a Consequence of Hume's Theory of Choice

Diaye, Marc-Arthur; Lapidus, André - HAL - 2005

Facing R. Sugden's criticism of our interpretation, it is shown in this paper that rationality appears as a possible … rationality through which Hume's theory is apprehended, is highly disputable, from the point of view of both standard choice … theory and Hume's theory of passions. Nonetheless, Sugden's criterion of rationality might be restated in Humean terms as a …

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Creative rationality and design education: Towards a pedagogy of adventure

Forest, Joelle; Faucheux, Michel - HAL - 2009

science and, thus, has neglected a specific kind of rationality (the “creative rationality”). Integrating this kind of … rationality in the design education drives us to invent“pedagogy of the adventure”. …

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Pleasure and belief in Hume's decision process

Diaye, Marc-Arthur; Lapidus, André - HAL - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to introduce explicitly pleasure and belief in what aims at being a Humean theory of decision, like the one developed in Diaye and Lapidus (2005a). Although we support the idea that Hume was in some way a hedonist – evidently different from Bentham's or Jevons' way...

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A Humean Theory of Choice of which Rationality May Be One Consequence

Diaye, Marc-Arthur; Lapidus, André - HAL - 2005

not seem to have given any evidence which would favour what we nowadays consider as the kind of rationality involved in …

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Cross-talk in economics and neuroscience

Bourgeois-Gironde, Sacha; Schoonover, Carl - HAL - 2008

Neuroeconomics is a recent extension of behavioral economics which aims at uncovering the brain mechanisms and activities that mediate regular and anomalous behaviour. Gul and Pesendorfer (2005) have launched a critique against the neuroeconomic research program, based on what they argue is the...

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A Reason for Unreason: Returns-Based Beliefs in Game Theory

Velu, C.; Iyer, S.; Gair, J.R. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2010

Players cooperate in experiments more than game theory would predict. We introduce the ‘returns-based beliefs’ approach: the expected returns of a particular strategy in proportion to total expected returns of all strategies. Using a decision analytic solution concept, Luce’s (1959)...

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There is no “point” in decision-making: a model of transactive rationality for public policy and administration

Kuruvilla, Shyama; Dorstewitz, Philipp - In: Policy Sciences 43 (2010) 3, pp. 263-287

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Rational indecisive choice

Gerasimou, Georgios - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper proposes and characterises two preference-based choice rules that allow the decision maker to choose nothing if the criteria associated with them are satisfied by no feasible alternative. Strict preferences are primitive in the first rule and weak preferences in the second. Each of...

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Une hybridation de l'économie et des neurosciences a-t-elle un sens ?

Bourgeois-Gironde, Sacha; Schoonover, Carl - In: Revue d'économie politique 118 (2008) 1, pp. 35-50

Neuroeconomics is a recent extension of behavioural economics which aims at uncovering the brain mechanisms and activities that mediate regular and anomalous economic behaviour. Gul and Pesendorfer [2005] have launched a critique against the neuroeconomic research programme, based on what they...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680068