The Economic Approach To Human Behavior

By Mathias Beike. 2016

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Online Consumer Review Factors Affecting Offline Hotel Popularity: Evidence from Tripadvisor (2016, background): “According to the rational action theory (Becker, 1976), rational consumers are riskaverse.”
Learning with Humans in the Loop (2020, background): “that are approximately optimal under some objective (or utility, or reward) [8].”
The psychology of coordination and common knowledge. (2014, background): “Rational choice theory (e.g., Becker, 1976) indicates that people should decide to work together if the expected value—the amount earned for successful coordination multiplied by the probability that they think their partner will do the same—is greater than the amount earned for working alone.”
Human Capital Theory (2014, background): “The word entire should be highlighted because the adamant proponent of this approach Gary Becker (1976) states, Subsequently, I applied the economic approach to fertility, education, the uses of time, crime, marriage, social interactions, and other sociological, legal, and political problems.”
The lure of rationality: Why does the deficit model persist in science communication? (2016, background): “Simply put, the theory posits that individuals make intentional decisions by weighing costs and benefits of options and information to maximize individual advantage (Becker, 1976; Downs, 1957; Friedman, 1953).”
Affective Influences on Energy-Related Decisions and Behaviors (2014, background): “For example, classic microeconomic approaches focus on the “rational actor” model, which assumes that people make their decisions by comparing the utility of the different available options and by choosing the outcome with the highest utility, while having access to all the important information tha”
A capability theory of the firm: an economics and (Strategic) management perspective (2019, result): “This definition can be found in Becker (1976) and is similar to treatments by Robbins (1932) and many others.”
Girls get smart, boys get smug: Historical changes in gender differences in math, literacy, and academic social comparison and achievement (2017, background): “This economic based approach has only three assumptions: 1) individuals have stable preferences, 2) individuals aim to maximise their utility with respect to those preferences, and 3) individuals do so under resource and/or information constraints (Becker, 1974).”
Climate policy through changing consumption choices: Options and obstacles for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (2014, unknown): “The relevance of preferences and costs are postulated by standard economics (Becker, 1976), the relevance of the complexity of products is recognized by transaction cost economics (Williamson, 1979) and the underinvestment for capital intensive products results from behavioral economic theory such…”
Nudges for Privacy and Security (2017, background): “…models individuals as agents with stable preferences that guide their decision making: decision making is assumed to be rational, in that individuals aim to maximize their utility given their preferences and other constraints they may be subject to [Becker 1976]—for instance, the available budget.”