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Œconomia, 2013 The rational choice or “economic” approach to politics—public choice analysis—brought the self-interest axiom into the analysis of the political sector as part of a move to provide a model of political behavior useful for economic policy analysis and ...
Steven G. Medema
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The name game for contributions: Influence of labeling and earmarking on the perceived tax burden [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper we apply conjoint analysis as an empirical method to study the influence of tax labeling and tax earmarking on the perceived tax burden. As reference for the individual behavior we use the model of a rational utility maximizer described by ...
Blaufus, Kay +4 more
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Conspicuous Consumption of Today’s Youth: Rational or Irrational Behavior? [PDF]
Democrazia e Diritti Sociali, 2020 In the article the main features of modern demonstrative consumer behavior under conditions of contemporary sociocultural and economic transformations is considered.
Viktoriia Zhurylo
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Health cycles and health transitions [PDF]
, 2013 We study the dynamics of poverty and health in a model of endogenous growth and rational health behavior. Population health depends on the prevalence of infectious diseases that can be avoided through costly prevention.
Chakraborty, Shankha +2 more
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Questioning rationality: the case for risk consumption
Notas Económicas, 2016 The standard assumption of rational, forward looking behavior has been heavily questioned given the impossibility of understanding some risk consumption behaviors within such a framework. The Becker and Murphy theory of rational addiction made a start on
Maria Isabel Clímaco, Luís Moura Ramos
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IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2019 Abstract Economic transformations, globalization, and localization of the world socioeconomic systems, the desire to institutionalize current processes in society have changed the perception of economic activity tasks by the business entities, approaches to their solution, motivation, norms and skills of rational management, ethical ...
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Rethinking plastic waste: innovations in enzymatic breakdown of oil‐based polyesters and bioplastics
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Plastic pollution remains a critical environmental challenge, and current mechanical and chemical recycling methods are insufficient to achieve a fully circular economy. This review highlights recent breakthroughs in the enzymatic depolymerization of both oil‐derived polyesters and bioplastics, including high‐throughput protein engineering, de novo ...
Elena Rosini +2 more
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Looking Backward and Looking Forward
Econometrics, 2019 Filtering has had a profound impact as a device of perceiving information and deriving agent expectations in dynamic economic models. For an abstract economic system, this paper shows that the foundation of applying the filtering method corresponds to ...
Zhengyuan Gao, Christian M. Hafner
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Models of rational decision making in contemporary economic theory [PDF]
Megatrend Revija, 2015 The aim of this paper is to show that the economists can not adequately explain the rational behavior if are focused only on the scientific observations from the model of full rationality and the model instrumental rationality, and the inclusion related ...
Krstić Bojan, Krstić Miloš
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Enzymatic degradation of biopolymers in amorphous and molten states: mechanisms and applications
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.This review explains how polymer morphology and thermal state shape enzymatic degradation pathways, comparing amorphous and molten biopolymer structures. By integrating structure–reactivity principles with insights from thermodynamics and enzyme engineering, it highlights mechanisms that enable efficient polymer breakdown.
Anđela Pustak, Aleksandra Maršavelski
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