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Toward a cognitive science of markets: economic agents as sense-makers
Economics: Journal Articles, 2019 Behavioral economics aspires to replace the agents of neoclassical economics with living, breathing human beings. Here, the author argues that behavioral economics, like its neoclassical counterpart, often neglects the role of active sense-making that ...
Johnson Samuel G.B.
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William Stanley Jevons and Francis Ysidro Edgeworth: Two Pioneers of Happiness Economics [PDF]
, 2019 This paper opens up with some issues which are fundamentally relevant to how Happiness Economics studies are presently conducted, and then sets out to show that for prominent neoclassical authors W. S. Jevons and F. Y. Edgeworth the object of Economics
Ansa Eceiza, Miren Maite +1 more
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Material ESG Performance and Bid Premium in Merger and Acquisition Deals
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the firm‐level and country‐level environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance on bid premiums in cross‐border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions. We document considerable variations in bid premiums. Higher carbon emissions are associated with higher bid premiums, suggesting that acquirers may perceive ...
Ndubuisi Ezenwa +2 more
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Experimental Tests of the Moms Economicus
American Journal of Islam and Society, 1999 This article has multiple objectives. It seeks to identify those assumptions of neoclassical economics which are vindicated by experimental tests and those which fail such tests.
Abdullah Yavas
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Lawson on Veblen on Social Ontology [PDF]
, 2015 This paper discusses Lawson’s use of Veblen’s concept of ‘neoclassical economics’ and argument that the category of neoclassical economics should be jettisoned on the grounds that it obfuscates effective critique of mainstream economics.
Davis, John B.
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The Opportunity Costs of Neoclassical Economics
Journal of Philosophical Economics, 2023 The notion of "opportunity cost" has been neglected in economics. The reason is that any such measure of cost is invisible, unobservable, and untestable. Yet the so-called 'competitive ideal' in neoclassical theory is based on claims of decreasing returns and substitutional tradeoffs in production, consumption and social relations, and therewith an ...
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Emergence versus neoclassical reductions in economics [PDF]
Journal of Economic Methodology, 2020 Many epistemic anomalies of the neoclassical research programme originate from its ontologically reductionist meta-axioms, which predicate how economic macro-systems are constituted from their micro-entities and how the latter behave – namely atomistic aggregativity, normative equilibration and global instrumental rationality.
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Navigating the Path to Sustainable Development in BRICS Countries
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study is a comprehensive analysis of the economic, environmental and social efficiencies of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) from 2010 to 2023, using the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method.
Isabella Melissa Gebert +1 more
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Homer: A Forerunner of Neoclassical Economics [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015 Homer clearly expressed the economic problem of choosing the best option among several alternatives given a certain set of restrictions. In the Odyssey he specifically wrote about the minimum cost choice. This kind of problem, as is well known, is at the heart of the neoclassical economics. We can therefore consider Homer a forerunner of this school of
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Mind the Gap: An Integrative Review of the Causes of the Gender Pay Gap
Journal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The gender pay gap (GPG) is often discussed in policy, media, and across multiple academic literatures. Scholars of the GPG have focused significant attention on the causes and generated an extensive body of work revealing rich insights on why women tend to make less than men.
Beth A. Livingston +3 more
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