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What Behavioural Economics Has to Say about Financial Literacy
Applied Finance Letters, 2013 Gaps in financial literacy are arguably responsible for significant errors in decision-making by consumers and investors alike. Unlike the conventional neoclassical economic wisdom, behavioral economics opens the analytical door to the significance of ...
Morris Altman
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The appeal of neoclassical economics: some insights from Keynes's epistemology
, 1995 Neoclassical economics continues to hold a particularly strong appeal for economists, in spite of concerns about its internal logic and applicability to policy issues.
Dow, Sheila
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmental sustainability has remained the main goal of the policy agenda in G7 economies, where the current priority of energy policy reforms is to minimize reliance on fossil fuels, which have significant environmental impacts, and to transition to cleaner energy sources.
Xintong Li +4 more
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, 2009 22 p.Behavioral economics gives us a better understanding of the current world, in which we are living. The author talks about behavioral economics and how it can be used to determine better outcomes in the economy rather than standard economics.
Espinosa, Alfonso F.
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Mathematics as the role model for neoclassical economics (Blanqui Lecture) [PDF]
Born out of the conscious effort to imitate mechanical physics, neoclassical economics ended up in the mid 20th century embracing a purely mathematical notion of rigor as embodied by the axiomatic method.
Giocoli, Nicola
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Adding Realism to Theories of Taxpayer Compliance
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Explaining why people pay taxes has not been a central focus in the many important contributions of Jim Cox. Even so, I argue here that his work has greatly affected the way that we think about taxpayer compliance, by adding both directly and indirectly much needed realism to the theories and the applications of compliance. These contributions
James Alm
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Complexity and the culture of economics: a sociological and inter-disciplinary analysis [PDF]
The Journal of Philosophical Economics, 2012 This paper offers a sociological explanation for why the field of economics has so severely restricted the scope of its analysis to the point where it failed to foresee the financial crises, economic recessions, and other large shifts in economic ...
Hendrik Van den Berg
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A Matter of Opinion: How Ecological and Neoclassical Environmental Economists Think about Sustainability and Economics [PDF]
The differing paradigms of ecological and neoclassical environmental economics have been described in various articles and books and are also embedded in different institutional settings.
Lydia Illge, Reimund Schwarze
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When Thriving for More Collapses the System: The Academic Reproduction of Uncaring Structures
British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract This essay argues that the widening gap between aspirational aims and visionary orientations and the prevailing practices in neoliberal academia stems from deeper, historically rooted, market‐based logics shaping our institutions, increasingly governed by economic values and academic subjectivities therein.
Lara Pecis, Florian Bauer
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Marshall and the development of 'Neoclassical' economics
, 2002 Historians of Economic thought normally regard Alfred Marshall as one of the key figures in what has come to be known as 'neoclassical economics'. However, Marshall's analysis departs significantly from many of the prominent 'neoclassical cofounders ...
Hart, Neil
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