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Rational Underdevelopment* [PDF]
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2007 AbstractWe propose a two‐region two‐sector model of uneven development, where technological change benefits either the lagging or the leading region. In this framework interregional transfers may lead to persistent underdevelopment; by raising wages, transfers reduce the chance of the backward region adopting a new technology and taking off.
Ignacio Ortuño Ortín, Klaus Desmet
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RATIONAL DISTANCES WITH RATIONAL ANGLES [PDF]
Mathematika, 2011 In 1946 Erd\H os asked for the maximum number of unit distances, $u(n)$, among $n$ points in the plane. He showed that $u(n)> n^{1+c/\log\log n}$ and conjectured that this was the true magnitude. The best known upper bound is $u(n)
Schwartz, Ryan +2 more
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Toward an attentional turn in research on risky choice
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 For a long time, the dominant approach to studying decision making under risk has been to use psychoeconomic functions to account for how behavior deviates from the normative prescriptions of expected value maximization.
Veronika Zilker +3 more
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 We study the strategic advantages of following rules of thumb that bundle different games together (called rule rationality) when this may be observed by one's opponent. We present a model in which the strategic environment determines which kind of rule rationality is adopted by the players.
Heller, Yuval, Winter, Eyal
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Scientific Reports, 2021 The project of identifying the cognitive mechanisms or information-processing functions that cause people to categorize others by their race is one of the longest-standing and socially-impactful scientific issues in all of the behavioral sciences.
David Pietraszewski
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Leaving traces behind: Using social media digital trace data to study adolescent wellbeing
Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 2023 Adolescents spend a significant amount of time on social media and there is a great public worry, from parents to policy makers, about the effect of social media on healthy development.
Mubashir Sultan +2 more
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The Faculty of Ideas. Kant’s Concept of Reason in the Narrower Sense
Open Philosophy, 2022 In the Transcendental Dialectic, Kant searched for a universal concept of reason different from the understanding and offered the short formula “the faculty of principles” (KrV A299/B356). I will argue that this is only one and not the most pertinent and
Lewin Michael
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Promoting the rule of rationality over positive law and legal thinking [PDF]
Anali Pravnog Fakulteta u Beogradu, 2021 The paper makes the following claims. First, the most important problem for contemporary legal philosophy is contrasting the morally disgusting state of the world. Second, qua jurisprudents, the problem must be dealt with indirectly.
Chiassoni Pierluigi
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Taking the sting out of choice: Diversification of investments
Judgment and Decision Making, 2014 It is often the case that one can choose a mix of alternative options rather than have to select one option only. Such an opportunity to diversify may blunt the risk involved in all-or-none choice. Here we investigate repeated investment decisions in two-
Judith Avrahami +2 more
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Is that the answer you had in mind? The effect of perspective on unethical behavior
Judgment and Decision Making, 2012 We explored how the perspective through which individuals view their actions influences their ethicality, comparing a narrow perspective that allows for evaluation of each choice in isolation, to a broad perspective that promotes an aggregate view of one’
Amos Schurr +3 more
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