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Essays on the Structure of Social Science Models

Author : Albert Ando

Publisher : MIT Press

Page : 184 pages

File Size : 37,47 MB

Release : 1963

Category : Social Science

ISBN :

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A set of related papers dealing with the meaning of causality in simulataneous dynamic equation systems. Investigation of the systems which only approximately satisfy the conditions enabling the definition of causality, leads to a set of limiting theorems concerning the dynamic behavior of such systems over time, and estimation procedures for the parameters of such systems. Implications of these theorems for some well-known propositions in economics and other social sciences are considered.





Behavioral Economics and Its Applications

Author : Peter Diamond

Publisher : Princeton University Press

Page : 331 pages

File Size : 25,74 MB

Release : 2012-01-12

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1400829143

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In the last decade, behavioral economics, borrowing from psychology and sociology to explain decisions inconsistent with traditional economics, has revolutionized the way economists view the world. But despite this general success, behavioral thinking has fundamentally transformed only one field of applied economics-finance. Peter Diamond and Hannu Vartiainen's Behavioral Economics and Its Applications argues that behavioral economics can have a similar impact in other fields of economics. In this volume, some of the world's leading thinkers in behavioral economics and general economic theory make the case for a much greater use of behavioral ideas in six fields where these ideas have already proved useful but have not yet been fully incorporated--public economics, development, law and economics, health, wage determination, and organizational economics. The result is an attempt to set the agenda of an important development in economics--an agenda that will interest policymakers, sociologists, and psychologists as well as economists. Contributors include Ian Ayres, B. Douglas Bernheim, Truman F. Bewley, Colin F. Camerer, Anne Case, Michael D. Cohen, Peter Diamond, Christoph Engel, Richard G. Frank, Jacob Glazer, Seppo Honkapohja, Christine Jolls, Botond Koszegi, Ulrike Malmendier, Sendhil Mullainathan, Antonio Rangel, Emmanuel Saez, Eldar Shafir, Sir Nicholas Stern, Jean Tirole, Hannu Vartiainen, and Timothy D. Wilson.



Structural Rationality and Other Essays on Practical Reason

Author : Julian Nida-Rümelin

Publisher : Springer

Page : 140 pages

File Size : 43,54 MB

Release : 2019-05-24

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 3319955071

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In this book, the author shows that it is necessary to enrich the conceptual frame of the theory of rational choice beyond consequentialism. He argues that consequentialism as a general theory of rational action fails and that this does not force us into the dichotomy teleology vs deontology. The unity of practical reason can be saved without consequentialism. In the process, he presents insightful criticism of standard models of action and rational choice. This will help readers discover a new perspective on the theory of rationality. The approach is radical: It transcends the reductive narrowness of instrumental rationality without denying its practical impact. Actions do exist that are outlined in accordance to utility maximizing or even self-interest maximizing. Yet, not all actions are to be understood in these terms. Actions oriented around social roles, for example, cannot count as irrational only because there is no known underlying maximizing heuristic. The concept of bounded rationality tries to embed instrumental rationality into a form of life to highlight limits of our cognitive capabilities and selective perceptions. However, the agent is still left within the realm of cost-benefit-reasoning. The idea of social preferences or meta-preferences cannot encompass the plurality of human actions. According to the author they ignore the plurality of reasons that drive agency. Hence, they coerce agency in fitting into a theory that undermines humanity. His theory of structural rationality acknowledges lifeworld patterns of interaction and meaning.



Foundations of Neuroeconomic Analysis

Author : Paul W. Glimcher

Publisher : OUP USA

Page : 488 pages

File Size : 25,75 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Education

ISBN : 0199744254

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Neuroeconomics has emerged at the border of the social and natural sciences. This book argues that a meaningful interdisciplinary synthesis of the study of human and animal choice is not only desirable, but also well underway, and so it is time to develop formally a foundational approach for the field.





Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics

Author : Morris Altman

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 785 pages

File Size : 45,64 MB

Release : 2015-01-30

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 131746916X

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At a time when both scholars and the public demand explanations and answers to key economic problems that conventional approaches have failed to resolve, this groundbreaking handbook of original works by leading behavioral economists offers the first comprehensive articulation of behavioral economics theory. Borrowing from the findings of psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, legal scholars, and biologists, among others, behavioral economists find that intelligent individuals often tend not to behave as effectively or efficiently in their economic decisions as long held by conventional wisdom. The manner in which individuals actually do behave critically depends on psychological, institutional, cultural, and even biological considerations. "Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics" includes coverage of such critical areas as the Economic Agent, Context and Modeling, Decision Making, Experiments and Implications, Labor Issues, Household and Family Issues, Life and Death, Taxation, Ethical Investment and Tipping, and Behavioral Law and Macroeconomics. Each contribution includes an extensive bibliography.



College Essay Essentials

Author : Ethan Sawyer

Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.

Page : 257 pages

File Size : 19,95 MB

Release : 2016-07-01

Category : Study Aids

ISBN : 1492635138

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Let the College Essay Guy take the stress out of writing your college admission essay. Packed with brainstorming activities, college personal statement samples and more, this book provides a clear, stress-free roadmap to writing your best admission essay. Writing a college admission essay doesn't have to be stressful. College counselor Ethan Sawyer (aka The College Essay Guy) will show you that there are only four (really, four!) types of college admission essays. And all you have to do to figure out which type is best for you is answer two simple questions: 1. Have you experienced significant challenges in your life? 2. Do you know what you want to be or do in the future? With these questions providing the building blocks for your essay, Sawyer guides you through the rest of the process, from choosing a structure to revising your essay, and answers the big questions that have probably been keeping you up at night: How do I brag in a way that doesn't sound like bragging? and How do I make my essay, like, deep? College Essay Essentials will help you with: The best brainstorming exercises Choosing an essay structure The all-important editing and revisions Exercises and tools to help you get started or get unstuck College admission essay examples Packed with tips, tricks, exercises, and sample essays from real students who got into their dream schools, College Essay Essentials is the only college essay guide to make this complicated process logical, simple, and (dare we say it?) a little bit fun. The perfect companion to The Fiske Guide To Colleges 2020/2021. For high school counselors and college admission coaches, this is an essential book to help walk your students through writing a stellar, authentic college essay.



Advances in Behavioral Economics

Author : Colin F. Camerer

Publisher : Princeton University Press

Page : 768 pages

File Size : 27,53 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0691116822

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Today, behavioral economics has become virtually mainstream.



Essays A-H 2008

Author : Raymond Pairan

Publisher : Raymond Pairan

Page : 219 pages

File Size : 18,37 MB

Release : 2009-12-04

Category : Political Science

ISBN :

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Insanity and compulsiveness, the gamblers spirit pervades this upside down top-heavy society – a society that values the ignorance of well positioned marketing sales types over informed intellect. Capitalism is a fundamentally coherent societal framework if it can be encapsulated from the political substrate and left to small and medium sized corporations without the destructive influences of industry oligarchy. Later stage capitalism unfortunately empowers the crafty snake oil dealers groomed in cult like educational institutions to buyout all the original creative entrepreneurs. This collection of essays written in 2008 continues to show how our current societal framework is designed to benefit the few at the expense of the many and how we can change this trajectory of wealth despotism into an egalitarian cooperative community of equally important community participants.