Predictably rational? in search of defenses for rational behavior in economics

• Autor: Richard B McKenzie
• Assuntos: ECONOMIA (ASPECTOS PSICOLÓGICOS); Economics -- Psychological aspects; Economic man; Rational expectations (Economic theory) -- Psychological aspects; Dogmengeschichte; Rationales Verhalten; Theorie; Verhaltensökonomik; Economics Psychological aspects
• Notas: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-298) and index
  
• Descrição: Economists' "irrational passion for dispassionate rationality" -- The methodological constraints on the rationality premise -- Human motivation and Adam Smith's "invisible hands" -- Rationality in economic thought: from Thomas Robert Malthus to Alfred Marshall and Philip Wicksteed -- Rationality in economic thought: Frank Knight, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and James Buchanan -- Behavioral economists, and Psychologists' challenges to rational behavior -- The evolutionary biology of rational behavior -- The neuroeconomics of rational decision making -- Economic defenses for rational behavior in economics -- Problems with behavioral economics -- Rationality and economic education
  
• Editor: Heidelberg Springer New York
  
• Data de criação/publicação: c2010
  
• Formato: xxi, 308 p ill 24 cm.
  
• Idioma: Inglês