A market of opinions: the political epistemology of focus groups by Lezaun, J

“…Provoking a conversation among a small group of people gathered in a room has become a widespread way of generating useful knowledge.1 The focus group is today a pervasive technology of social investigation, a versatile experimental setting where a multitude of ostensibly heterogeneous issues, from politics to economics, from voting to spending, can be productively addressed.2 Marketing is the field in which the focus group has acquired its most visible and standardized form, as an instrument to probe and foretell economic behaviour by anticipating the encounter of consumers and products in the marketplace.3 But whether they are used to anticipate consumer behaviour in a laboratory-like setting, or to produce descriptions of political attitudes, conversations elicited in the 'white room' of the focus group are relevant to a striking range of objects of social-scientific inquiry.4 The observation of contrived groupings of research subjects in 'captive settings' is of course a familiar source of knowledge in the social sciences, but there is something peculiar to the focus group as a research technology. …”

Competition in the history of economic thought by Dennis, K, Dennis, Kenneth

“…</p> <p>Second, as to economic competition in general, I draw the conclusion that though it is not law-like in its tendencies or effects, that is, in producing regular and uniformly repeated sequences of events, nevertheless, by its very breadth of meaning, competition is a ubiquitous fact of life, and economists were certainly justified in seizing upon it in their explanations of economic behaviour, and the concept - broadly interpreted - is as relevant today as it has always been. …”

Transforming absolute value to categorical choice in primate superior colliculus during value-based decision making by Beizhen Zhang, Janis Ying Ying Kan, Mingpo Yang, Xiaochun Wang, Jiahao Tu, Michael Christopher Dorris

“…The authors identify a neural mechanism that directly transforms absolute values to categorical choices within the superior colliculus and which supports value-based decision making critical for real-world economic behaviours.…”
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On A General Frame For Macroeconomic Modelling by Emil DINGA, Camelia BĂLTĂREȚU

“…The specific objectives of the project were: a) description of the economic markets in correlation with the logic description of the economic behaviours; b) determination of the sectoral blocks of the Romanian economy, on the basis of the homogeneity of the economic; activity and behaviour; c) association of the sectoral blocks to the national accounts, so as to ensure the sources of empirical data for the calibration and utilisation of the model; d) association of the sectoral blocks to the economic markets; e) association of the national accounts with the economic markets; f) identification of the classes of interactions between the determined sectoral blocks.…”
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Challenges in evaluating risks and policy options around endemic establishment or elimination of novel pathogens by C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Soa Fy Andriamandimby, Rachel E. Baker, Emma E. Glennon, Katie Hampson, T. Deirdre Hollingsworth, Petra Klepac, Amy Wesolowski

“…In this overview, we detail how models might identify directions for better leveraging or expanding the scope of data available on the pathogen trajectory, for bounding the theoretical context of emergence relative to prospects for elimination, and for framing the larger economic, behavioural and social context that will influence policy decisions and the pathogen’s outcome.…”
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Polski Atlas Etnograficzny — wyzwania wobec współczesności by Edyta Diakowska-Kohut

“…The very materials prove the elements of cultural heritage comprising information on disappearing beliefs, traditions, ceremonies, social and economic behaviours such as agriculture, farming, rural construction, or traditional craft. …”
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Challenges in evaluating risks and policy options around endemic establishment or elimination of novel pathogens by Metcalf, CJE, Andriamandimby, SF, Baker, RE, Glennon, EE, Hampson, K, Hollingsworth, TD, Klepac, P, Wesolowski, A

“…In this overview, we detail how models might identify directions for better leveraging or expanding the scope of data available on the pathogen trajectory, for bounding the theoretical context of emergence relative to prospects for elimination, and for framing the larger economic, behavioural and social context that will influence policy decisions and the pathogen’s outcome.…”

Standards, Trade and Competition in the Emerging Global Information Infrastructure Environment. by David, P, Steinmueller, W

“…Due to strategic economic behaviours on the part of private businesses and national governments, the goal of a fully interoperable GII remains elusive. …”

International Pandemic Lawmaking: Some Perspectives from Behavioural Economics by Anne van Aaken, Tomer Broude

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A Temporal-Spatial Model Based Short-Term Power Load Forecasting Method in COVID-19 Context by Bowen Liu, Bowen Liu, Bowen Liu, Da Xu, Da Xu, Da Xu, Lin Jiang, Shuangyin Chen, Shuangyin Chen, Yong He, Yong He, Yong He

“…The worldwide coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has greatly affected the power system operations as a result of the great changes of socio-economic behaviours. This paper proposes a short-term load forecasting method in COVID-19 context based on temporal-spatial model. …”
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Applying the economic concept of profitability to leaves by Rafael Villar, Manuel Olmo, Pedro Atienza, Antonio J. Garzón, Ian J. Wright, Hendrik Poorter, Luis A. Hierro

“…In summary, by comparing economic behaviours of plants and humans there is potential to develop new perspectives on plant ecological strategies and plant evolution.…”
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The Funnel Beaker Culture in Western Lesser Poland: Yesterday and Today by Marek Nowak

“…The local TRB communities were characterised by varied patterns of settlement and economic behaviours. These patterns were correlated with ecological differences.…”
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Research on the Impact of Air Pollution on the Real Estate Market-Take Shanghai’s Residential Commercial Housing Market as an Example by Li Yajing

“…Based on urban economics, behavioural economics and western economics theory, we analysed the effects of air pollution on the real estate market through VAR model and IRF using the AQI and the residential commercial housing market data from January 1, 2015 to June 30, 2020. …”
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Élaboration d’un protocole d’expérimentation lithique pour la compréhension des comportements techniques et techno-économiques au Paléolithique moyen by Michel Brenet, Laurence Bourguignon, Mila Folgado, Illumina Ortega

“…Finally, a few examples of its application to archaeological industries illustrate the potential of such a procedure for contributing to our understanding of the economic behaviours of Middle Palaeolithic groups.…”
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REFLEXIONES SOBRE EL CONCEPTO DE RACIONALIDAD EN LA TEORÍA ECONÓMICA by CARLO PANICO

“…The paper also discusses the meaning of rationality in rational choice theory, the contributions of Simon on "bounded rationality" and the different lines of research of experimental economics, behavioural economics and neuronomics. During this long journey the literature has underlined the existence of several problems, some of which can be so summarised: is it possible to consider scientifically satisfactory a theory that moves from assumptions, like those on the behaviour of utility, whose validity cannot be empirically verified?…”
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A template for promoting energy conservation in Nigeria’s residential sector by Edwin Umoh, Yahaya Bande

“…Energy conservation is an all-encompassing principle (building economics, behavioural, technological and educational) whose cumulative effects can result to improvement in energy access, energy availability and sufficiency, quality of life and retractive impacts on climate change and reduction in carbon footprint of a country. …”
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A arte e o ouro by Bruno Haas

“…Abstract This article exposes the chromatic system elaborated by Yves Klein in his monochrome painting and the way Klein incorporates the economical behaviour of the art work as a market value in his artistic project transcending painting towards the nothingness of “pure” creativity. …”
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Challenges in obesity research by Andreu Palou, M. Luisa Bonet

“…Multiple socio-cultural, socio-economic, behavioural and biological factors -often interrelated and many of them still unknown or poorly understood- can contribute to the establishment and perpetuation of obese phenotypes. …”
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The limits of laws: Traffic law enforcement in South Africa by Sophia du Plessis, Ada Jansen, Krige Siebrits

“…Conclusion: Institutional economists have to take a greater interest in the insights of research in behavioural economics, behavioural and cognitive science and other disciplines in order to provide useful advice in settings where such change is an important policy objective.…”
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Towards open data blockchain analytics: a Bitcoin perspective by D. McGinn, D. McIlwraith, Y. Guo

“…Not until the advent of the Bitcoin blockchain has such a trusted, transparent, comprehensive and granular dataset of digital economic behaviours been available for public network analysis. …”
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