Predictably Rational? In Search of Defenses for Rational Behavior in Economics /
Mainstream economists everywhere exhibit an "irrational passion for dispassionate rationality." Behavioral economists, and long-time critic of mainstream economics suggests that people in mainstrean economic models "can think like Albert Einstein, store as much memory as IBM’s Big Blu...
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Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.