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برنامهریزی و بودجه, 2021 The concept of rational behavior has a significant role in economics and its analysis of market economy and general equilibrium. On the other hand, there exists a logical relation between limits of rationality and learning from error. With explaining the
Masoud Mohammadi Alamuti
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Efficient Use of Behavioral Tools to Reduce Electricity Demand of Domestic Consumers
Scientific Annals of Economics and Business, 2016 Purpose: The present study investigated the main literature on the subject of methods and policies for reducing the electricity demand of domestic consumers, in order to identify the place of behavioral tools.
Elbaz Shimon, Zaiţ Adriana
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Models, fictions and explanations: A study in historical epistemology of economics [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2013 This paper examines the standard criticism of the neoclassical economic theory that takes mathematical formalism and the practice of modelling as the most problematic aspect of orthodox economics. The aim of the paper is to explore the epistemic
Žitko Mislav
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The Emperor\u27s Clothes [PDF]
, 2002 Argues that neoclassical economics is primarily a theory of the human individual in economic life but contemporary mainstream economics does not posses a theory of the human individual.
Davis, John B.
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan +3 more
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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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The institutional dimension of market failure
Ekonomia i Prawo, 2019 Motivation: At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, institutionalism was presented by T. Veblen as an alternative to neoclassical economics. On the basis of neoclassical economics, in addition to the explanation how an effectively functioning market ...
Wojciech Giza
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(WP 2015-03) 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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Women in development: a critique of neo-classical economic theory as one of the causes for gender inequality [PDF]
, 2020 This research reviews and critiques neoliberalism and neoclassical economics for them being one of the main causes for the subordination and oppression of women.
El Morally, Reham
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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