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Do animal spirits rely on somatic markers? Keynes in light of neuroscience

Lainé, Michael - In: Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 36 (2014) 3, pp. 439-466

Thanks to neuroscience, the brain is no longer a black box. It is possible to investigate its basic functioning and see whether its teachings may buttress Keynes's concept of animal spirits. Seven features constitute them: duality of reasoning; automatic analogical assessment; automatic...

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Universales sin absolutos Entrevista a Luis Fernando Medina Sierra

Gaitan, Gabriel; Ferrer, Enrique - In: REVISTA APUNTES DEL CENES (2005)

La entrevista que realizan los profesores Gaitán y Ferrer al doctor LuisFernando Medina Sierra, economista colombiano, vinculado a la Universidadde Chicago, permite ir comprendiendo mejor en el medio académico,disciplinar y profesional, la importancia de un trabajo holístico,interdisciplinar,...

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ERP Diffusion and Mimetic Behaviors

Leroux, Erick; Pupion, Pierre-Charles; Sahut, Jean-Michel - Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la … - 2014

The emergence of enterprise resource planning systems (ERP) has often been presented as one of the main factors of organizational change within companies in the course of the last few years. The neoclassical and socio-rational analyses show that ERP adop

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"The whole breadth of reason": a step towards rethinking economics and rationality

Beretta, Simona; Maggioni, Mario A. - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 120 (2012) 3, pp. 241-262

topic of economic rationality and discusses its strengths and weaknesses within an interdisciplinary perspective … rationality is a powerful tool, within a relational, dynamic, realistic and ‘whole’ anthropology. …

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Overt and Underlying Games: The Case of the Centipede

Beretta, Carlo - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 118 (2010) 1, pp. 27-45

Making use of and following substantive rationality is a costly and not always feasible option. In games, this option … play an underlying game in which the alternatives are to follow either substantive rationality or a different rule, here … underlying game can have more than one equilibrium. Substantive rationality in the underlying game can justify behaviour which is …

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Razionalità e libertà

Beretta, Carlo - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 112 (2004) 1, pp. 3-26

Completeness and transitivity of preferences go a long way towards detennining what it is rational to do. This risks reducing being free to being rational or to being irrational. It is argued that in fact, preferences, and in particular abilities to perceive and evaluate, are, at least in part,...

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The good reasons for a broader reason

Scola, Angelo - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 120 (2012) 3, pp. 263-268

The persistence of the global economic crisis and the rapid geo-political transformations that are under way, in particular those involving the Middle East and North Africa, seem to confirm the intentions of the organisers of this Summer School: a rethinking of our conception of human reason, in...

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Animal spirits and habitus: convergence and deepening

Lainé, Michaël - In: Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political … (2014) 66, pp. 199-236

For long, economics and sociology have been exploring rationality and decision-making with analytical tools of their …

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Considerations about the Informational Efficiency of Financial Markets

Camelia, Oprean; Renate, Bratu - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XII (2012) 1, pp. 1570-1575

The paper proposes a critical analysis, based on consistency criteria, regarding the controversed current state of the informational efficiency theory of the capital market (Efficient Market Hypothesis). Nowadays, after several decades of research and thousands of studies, economists have not...

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Rational Consumer Behavior and Its Importance for Real and Simulated Business Environment

Gabriela, Gheorghiu - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XI (2011) 2, pp. 503-508

Whether they operate in a real or simulated business environment, the success of economic activity undertaken by producers/traders depends on understanding the behavior of current and potential customers, by studying the mechanism by which they take consumer decisions under the influence of...

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