The economic consequences of homo economicus: neoclassical economic theory and the fallacy of market optimality
This essay presents a critique of the standard ascension from the rational agent to the optimal market in economic theory. Critiques of homo economicus are found unsatisfactory on grounds that its employment allows for the prediction of essential features of actual markets. using this same criterion...
Main Authors: | David Calnitsky, Asher Dupuy-Spencer |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | deu |
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Editura ASE Bucuresti
2013-05-01
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Series: | The Journal of Philosophical Economics |
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Online Access: | http://www.jpe.ro/poze/articole/94.pdf |
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