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An under-appreciated aspect of F.A. Hayek's mature views about rationality is the inter-relation of the “pure logic of … rationality and replaced it with a completely rule-oriented conception of decisionmaking. In fact, however, the analysis in Hayek ….Furthermore, this framework also shows that his fundamental conception of individual rationality is pragmatic, contextual, modifiable …
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historical perspective and link our findings to a suggestion as to how decision theory could make use of it today. We emphasize …, with how it generally came to function within decision theory from the late 1970s onwards: that is, as an empirical … much with the rationality of choices as with the rationality of the agent as a person. These two claims are buttressed by a …
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This paper translates F.A. Hayek's informal capital theory into a dynamic equilibrium model. The focus is restricted to …, being restated in "The Pure Theory of Capital", first published in 1941. The underlying premise is that Hayek adopts infant … of his capital theory by established neoclassical tools is admissible. The major result is that Hayek's capital theory …
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De tous les problèmes conçus par la théorie de la décision, le paradoxe d'Allais est peut-être celui qui aura suscité l … rationalité, et il invite finalement la théorie de la décision à diversifier ses méthodes en s'inspirant de ces tentatives … originales. <p> Few problems in decision theory have raised more persisting interest than the Allais paradox. It appears that …
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This paper examines Mark Blaug's position on the normative character of Paretian welfare economics: in general, and specifically with respect to his debate with Pieter Hennipman over this question during the 1990s. The paper also clarifies some of the confusions that emerged within the context...
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Our forthcoming book, Welfare Theory, Public Action and Ethical Values challenges the belief that, until modern welfare …
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Historians of economic thought are paying greater attention to issues of social ontology (that is, to the assumptions that economists make about the nature of social reality). In this paper, we contribute to this burgeoning literature by exploring the hitherto neglected way in which James...
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erachtet worden ist. Im Verlust der Bildhaftigkeit wurden viele Räume, die die ökonomische Theorie beschreibt, grundlegend …
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In order to address the question whether Hayek might have been an Agent-based Computational Economist (ACE) avant-la-lettre, we consider an ACE model concerning the phenomenon of information contagion. Alongside increasing returns, network externalities, and information cascades, information...
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