I’m reading Tim Harford’s "The Logic of Life" – it’s the first book I bought on my Kindle. He uses a definition of rationality which I hadn’t seen before, which is simply that people respond to incentives. I think this model of people as relatively rational has much more support than the idea that they are absolutely rational – that they choose optimal strategies to reach their goals, that they behave in an unbiased fashion.
Relative vs. Absolute Rationality
Relative vs. Absolute Rationality
Relative vs. Absolute Rationality
I’m reading Tim Harford’s "The Logic of Life" – it’s the first book I bought on my Kindle. He uses a definition of rationality which I hadn’t seen before, which is simply that people respond to incentives. I think this model of people as relatively rational has much more support than the idea that they are absolutely rational – that they choose optimal strategies to reach their goals, that they behave in an unbiased fashion.
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