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Why organisational diversity matters in a circular economy and society.

open access: yesResour Conserv Recycl
Van Opstal W, Bocken N, Brusselaers J.
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Rationalism and mainstream economics

open access: yesJournal of Economic Methodology, 2003
It is generally agreed that mainstream economics follows John Stuart Mill's economic methodology. Since Mill's deductivist methodology was explicitly anti‐empirical, this raises the question of to what degree economics is an empirical science. To help answer this question, Gerald Holton's notion of themata is introduced.
Alex Viskovatoff
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Mainstream Economics and Sense-Making

Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 2009
This work presents a semiotic approach to the economy, underlining that any economic phenomena is at the same time a communicative act as it is contingent to sense-making. The article discusses this topic by focusing on a specific phenomenon studied by economics: the underground economy. It shows that the conceptualization of the underground economy in
SALVATORE, Sergio   +3 more
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Mainstream Climate Economics

2020
In this chapter, Roos and Hoffart provide a formal exposition of William D. Nordhaus’ DICE model. The DICE model is the workhorse model in mainstream climate economics. It triggered a lot of research, is used as a canonical model in teaching and is also the basis for policy recommendation.
Michael Roos, Franziska M. Hoffart
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A synthesis of behavioural and mainstream economics

Nature Human Behaviour, 2019
Mainstream economic theory is based on the rationality assumption: that people act as best they can to promote their interests. In contrast, behavioural economics holds that people act by behavioural rules of thumb, often with poor results. We propose a synthesis according to which people indeed act by rules, which usually work well, but may work ...
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