Why Homo Economicus help each other?

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Why Homo Economicus help each other?

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Students of economics are commonly ?drummed into head? that people do not care about others. Our subjects are ?Homo Economicus? and they only care about maximization of own utility no matter of what impact it has on others. Yet in our daily, we can observe many examples that go against this assumption. People contribute to charities, donate blood and sometimes they even sacrifice theirs life to help others. This clearly contradicts assumption of rationality- but is this behavior irrational? This reviewstudy aims to briefly map development of economic thinking about rationality in a relation to social decision making. It begins with neoclassical ?rational man? and its origins. It goes further by introducing behavioral economics and its theories of social preferences -which claim that helping others may in fact lead to maximization of one?s own utility. On examples of selected studies it shows its strengths and weaknesses.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Why Homo Economicus help each other?

Popis výsledku anglicky

Students of economics are commonly ?drummed into head? that people do not care about others. Our subjects are ?Homo Economicus? and they only care about maximization of own utility no matter of what impact it has on others. Yet in our daily, we can observe many examples that go against this assumption. People contribute to charities, donate blood and sometimes they even sacrifice theirs life to help others. This clearly contradicts assumption of rationality- but is this behavior irrational? This reviewstudy aims to briefly map development of economic thinking about rationality in a relation to social decision making. It begins with neoclassical ?rational man? and its origins. It goes further by introducing behavioral economics and its theories of social preferences -which claim that helping others may in fact lead to maximization of one?s own utility. On examples of selected studies it shows its strengths and weaknesses.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

AH - Ekonomie

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2014

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

New Economic Challenges: 5th International PhD Student Conference

ISBN

9788021071407

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

12

Strana od-do

109-120

Název nakladatele

Masarykova univerzita

Místo vydání

Brno

Místo konání akce

Brno

Datum konání akce

29. 5. 2014

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

EUR - Evropská akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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