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Showing posts with label action theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label action theory. Show all posts
Sunday, February 2, 2020

On socially influenced preferences — Chris Dillow

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So much for rational agency based on autonomous preferences as viable assumption for a realistic economics. The world in which we live is ...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Why we are wrong — Chris Dillow

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Cognitive-affective bias. Short post but really a long one considering the links, which are useful in gaining understanding as well as just...
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Sunday, August 6, 2017

Chris Dillow — Choice in economics

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Are rational choice theory and utility maximization unwarranted assumptions in that they contradict evidence? Stumbling and Mumbling Choic...
Sunday, November 27, 2016

Daniel Little — What is the role of character in action?

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I've been seriously interested in the question of character since being invited to contribute to a volume on the subject a few years ag...
Monday, October 12, 2015

Jason Smith — Noah is stealing my material

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More on econ as science. Noah says to prove the assumptions are wrong. Lars says show that they are correct. Who has the better case?...
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Sunday, December 1, 2013

Chris Dillow — Building Character

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The fact that we are discussing this itself shows the depth of the problem. Aristotle decided this issue in the Nichomachean Ethics , sum...
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Monday, May 13, 2013

Philip Pilkington: The Ideology to End Ideologies – A Response to Corey Robin on Nietzsche, Hayek, Mises, and Marginalism

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The political philosopher Corey Robin recently published an interesting essay on what he thinks to be the connection between the late Germa...
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