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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Neoclassical economic theory"”.
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Akratic Homo Economicus: Does the Neoclassical Economic Theory "Rational Agent" Assumption Accurately Depict Human Nature?
<p>Neoclassical economic theory has long been scrutinized for its failure to be congruent with reality, often lacking generality and tractability due to, what many critics argue to be, unrealistic assumptions. One of the theory's core suppositions is a representative "rational agent" or <em>homo …
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Production: Using Neoclassical economic theory and modern estimation techniques to measure the impact of socially conscious activities on firm output
… (CSR) on firm production by using a neoclassical production function and modern estimation techniques. Although the impact of CSR on firm performance has been studied in the past, the results have been mixed, with some studies showing CSR having a positive influence, others a negative …
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Work intensification and professionalism : A study of teachers' perceptions in the state school system in Western Australia
… of the Western world of what has become known as economic rationalism, and for some commentators, as economic liberalism. Grounded in neoclassical economic theory, and with close kinship to the Taylorist and Fordist principles of the early decades of the twentieth century, the vision of economic …
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L'azione economica tra etica e neurobiologia
… debate over the conflict between ethics and economics is often described as an epochal issue, an expression of present-day fragility, resulting from the implosion of the development model, which has characterised western society. The debate, however, exposes a paradox. Whilst, on the one …
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The effect of price, advertising, and income on consumer demand: an almost ideal demand system investigation
… the homogeneity of demand property on which the economic consumer demand theory is built. Rejection of this assumption is indicative of a state of mind called ‘money illusion’. Evidence from applied economics literature suggests that consumers respond asymmetrically to equal changes in prices and …
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Rational irrationality; the making of property decisions in firms as a part of resource allocation processes- a Korean example
… the profit maximising assumption and neoclassic economics view of the behaviour of the firm, no firm is expected to behave differently in the market or it will be forced out of the market by incurring higher costs than the competitors. This research aims to investigate how property decisions as a …
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Scholastic Economics, Classical, and Modern
This thesis seeks to restore economic theory, in an updated version, to its place of origin within the Scholastic natural law. This summary of the innovations in the thesis follows the outline of the Scholastic understanding of human nature, combining insights from Aristotle Augustine and Thomas …
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Race and place : green collar jobs and the movement for economic democracy in Los Angeles and Cleveland
Faced with the problem of growing economic inequality in America and the threat posed to democracy, a number of planning scholars have put forth the idea of building progressive civil society capacity in the economic sphere to broaden stakeholder control and accountability of capitalist markets. …
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Value Based Management in Young Innovative Growth Companies
… orientation. Authors taking the perspective of neoclassical economic theory explain that value based orientation is inseparable from the sustainable generation of shareholder value and implies the comparatively slow long-term growth of a business. A balanced strategy weighing risk and growth …