On the economics of superabundant information and scarce attention

This article provides an introduction to the literature addressing the causes and consequences of limited attention in economics. We present a simple set-theoretic micro-structure describing the allocation of attention, and use this framework to explain the central notions of goal-and stimulus-drive...

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Main Authors: Andreas Hefti, Steve Heinke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Œconomia 2015-03-01
Series:Œconomia
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/1104