Behavioral economics about economic opportunism: variability of conceptual provisions
- Authors: Chashchin V.V.1
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Affiliations:
- rector, Ural Institute of Stock Market, 35, Sibirsky Tract, Yekaterinburg, 620100, Russian Federation.
- Issue: Vol 6, No 9/1 (2015)
- Pages: 177-194
- Section: ECONOMICS
- URL: https://journals.ssau.ru/eco/article/view/5771
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18287/2542-0461-2015-0-9/1-177-194
- ID: 5771
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Abstract
Behavioral economics claims overall reconsideration of the decision theory. The concept of an economic agent’s rationality is a subject of complex rethinking simultaneously with the hypothesis of opportunism. It becomes clear that unscrupulous actions are irrational as a rule. On the one hand, the attention of researchers is concentrated on motivation and regulatory potential of morality. On the other hand, they use approaches that are more general to explain the nature of the deception, taking into account the structure of social and cognitive contexts of cooperation. This work is devoted to the analysis of the main provisions of these concepts.
About the authors
V. V. Chashchin
rector, Ural Institute of Stock Market, 35, Sibirsky Tract, Yekaterinburg, 620100, Russian Federation.
Author for correspondence.
Email: morenov.sv@ssau.ru
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