Questions tagged [rationality]
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Who is the first one to equate “rational” with “complete and transitive”?
MWG taught that, suppose that the menu is finite, "rational" is the same as "complete and transitive". But it seems that it does not cite any sources. Who said this first? vNM said in 1944 that their ...
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Demand correspondence is both upper and lower hemi-continuous; is the preference continuous?
$\succsim$ is a weak order over $\mathbb R^L$.
For a closed budget set $B\subset\mathbb R^L$, define demand correspondence: $$D(B)=\{x\in B|x\succsim y\forall y\in B\}$$.
We know that $D$ is always ...
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Does Pascal's Wager fail archimedean property?
I assume most people have heard of Pascal's Wager, in case you have not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager
By the Stanford encyclopedia of philosphy:
"We have a decision under risk,...
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Understanding Classical Rationality at a Basic Level
I am a high school student in an intro Microeconomics class (note that we have not covered utility functions) and I'm utterly confused about the classical concept of rationality. I certainly ...
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Does Preference have a Hierarchy? A Silly Question
I have what is probably a very silly question, but I have gone down the rabbit hole and can’t get back out.....
Is there is a hierarchy of preference, and within each level of choice do we reset the ...
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What does irrationality mean under the notion of revealed preferences? An example with terrorism.
I am currently studying for an economics of conflict exam and one of the potential questions is likely to be in the vein of "Are Terrorists Rational - Discuss".
However how would rationality be ...
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Is soil exhaustion rational?
I was talking with friends about soil exhaustion in agriculture. They tell me that it is very frequent because of the methods employed in modern agriculture. They suggest that this amount of ...
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Violation of completeness axiom (simple everyday examples)
Simple everyday examples of violations of transitivity are not difficult to come up with, but I'm having trouble thinking of some for the completeness axiom.
One possible formulation of the ...
