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research core of institutional economics, mainly based on his behavioural assumptions …
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science of economics that he had inherited from his own teacher, Frank Knight, and how this affected his understanding not … perspective, illustrates the evolution of economic science in 20th century neoclassical economics in two respects. First, it …
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Standard histories of economics usually treat the "marginal revolution" of the midnineteenth century as both … supplanting the "classical" economics of Smith and Ricardo and as advancing the idea of economics as a mathematical science. The … marginalists - especially Jevons and Walras - viewed Cournot's (1838) book on mathematical economics as a seminal work on which …
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I discuss Aoki's fundamental model of institutions in its most recent version, building on a comment that Aoki contributed to a paper by Hindriks and Guala in 2015. These authors advance a ‘rules in equilibrium' approach to institutions that claims to reduce a Searlian social ontology of...
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Ronald Coase merged two traditions in economics, marginalism and institutionalism. Neoclassical economics in the 1930s … is outside the mainstream, but they have found new energy with the rise of behavioral economics and socio-economics. The … and economics. First, it recognized marginalism and the conception of the rational actor as central to economic analysis …
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Ronald Coase (1910-2013), who sadly died at the remarkable age of 102, made significant contributions to economics … structure and functioning of the economy”. This paper traces the development of Coase’s economics to describe his contributions … and the essence of the law and economics enterprise he fostered …
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Portuguese Abstract: Discuto neste artigo a concepção de racionalidade de Herbert A. Simon em duas de suas principais definições gerais: a racionalidade limitada e a racionalidade procedimental. Argumento que a segunda é a que melhor sintetiza a visão do autor sobre o comportamento...
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This article presents a comparative analysis of the approaches of institutional economics and Walrasian economics …. After reviewing the differences between both perspectives, it argues that institutional economics is an alternative, however … incomplete, to general equilibrium economics. It compares the way both tendencies conceive the individual, knowledge, efficiency …
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This paper addresses a central question of the experimental turn in economics: how a relatively small group of … experimental economists in the 1970s and 1980s managed to convince editors and referees of leading economics journals of the merits … of the experimental method with the consequence that by the early 1990s experimental economics research became a standard …
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