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Akratic Homo Economicus: Does the Neoclassical Economic Theory 'Rational Agent' Assumption Accurately Depict Human Nature?

机译：Akratic Homo Economicus：新古典经济学理论“理性代理”的假设是否准确地描绘了人性？

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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 homo economicus, whose self-interest and optimal choices, which are in state of equilibrium and efficiency are rooted in utility maximization of his well-being. Even though neoclassical economics claims to accurately depict human nature, from its very inception it has failed to incorporate human psychology and sociology into its foundations. As the behavioral and biological research became more robust in the 20th and 21st centuries, it began to provide evidence against some of theory's core questionable and often unsubstantiated claims. The paper intends to demonstrate a flaw in the "human rationality" assumption of the standard economic theory by exploring the phenomenon of addiction as one of the akratic behaviors that is often exhibited by human beings in the real world. This paper will focus on providing a brief overview and juxtaposition the Rational Choice and Rational Addiction models against assumptions and conclusions of the "picoeconomic" approach to explore the concepts of rational versus akratic behaviors in an attempt to evaluate whether these theories are capable of systematically explaining addictive tendencies of an "economic man."
机译：长期以来，人们一直在审视新古典经济学理论，因为它未能与现实相吻合，而由于许多批评家认为是不现实的假设，因此往往缺乏普遍性和易处理性。该理论的核心假设之一是具有代表性的“理性主体”或同质经济，他们的自我利益和最优选择处于均衡和效率状态，其根源在于其福利的最大化效用。尽管新古典经济学声称可以准确地描绘人性，但从一开始它就没有将人的心理学和社会学纳入其基础。随着行为和生物学研究在20世纪和21世纪变得更加强大，它开始为某些理论的核心可疑且常常没有根据的主张提供证据。本文旨在通过探讨成瘾现象作为人类在现实世界中经常表现出的一种极端行为，来证明标准经济理论的“人类理性”假设存在缺陷。本文将着重于简要概述和并置“理性选择”和“理性成瘾”模型，并与“ picoeconomic”方法的假设和结论进行探讨，以探索理性行为与阿克特行为的概念，以试图评估这些理论是否能够系统地解释“经济人”的成瘾倾向。

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    Logachev, Marina.;

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    University of Denver.;

  • 授予单位 University of Denver.;
  • 学科 Economic theory.
  • 学位 M.A.
  • 年度 2016
  • 页码 65 p.
  • 总页数 65
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  • 正文语种 eng
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