Article history: Received 7 March 2005 Received in revised form 5 May 2006 Accepted 26 May 2006 Available online 7 July 2006 Environmental economics and ecological economics share the common objective of understanding the human–economy–environment interaction in order to redirect the economies towards sustainability. In pursuing this objective, these two perspectives utilise different types of ...

Economic theory has evolved without paying proper attention to behavioral approaches, especially to social, economic, and cognitive psychology. This has recently changed by including behavioral economics courses in many doctoral study programs. Although this new development is most welcome, the typical topics of the behavioral economics courses are not truly behavioral. More specifically, we qu...

Callon and Hilgartner, respectively, have argued that the economy and technoscience are performed and that neoclassical economics (NE) and scientific reports should be interpreted as performances. Building on that theme, it is argued here that the ongoing transformations collectively known as globalization signal a new way of thinking about and performing both economics and technoscience: Suppl...

Abstract—Modeling artificial societies that form an economy can add to our understanding of modern economic theory. A case of interest is the Sugarscape model developed by Joshua M. Epstein and Robert Axtell. In many respects, Sugarscape exhibits emergent behaviors that adhere to neoclassical economics; however, other behaviors of the model do not coincide as well with economic theory. We explo...

Economic theory has evolved without paying proper attention to behavioral approaches, especially to social, economic, and cognitive psychology. This has recently changed by including behavioral economics courses in many doctoral study programs. Although this new development is most welcome, the typical topics of the behavioral economics courses are not truly behavioral. More specifically, we qu...

Economic theory has evolved without paying proper attention to behavioral approaches, especially to social, economic, and cognitive psychology. This has recently changed by including behavioral economics courses in many doctoral study programs. Although this new development is most welcome, the typical topics of the behavioral economics courses are not truly behavioral. More specifically, we qu...

Under what circumstances is it necessary or convenient for an agent to rely on habits or rules? This paper focuses on the types of decision situation giving rise to their use. Even optimisation requires the deployment of rules, and for this reason mainstream economics cannot legitimately ignore these questions. The argument is that habits and rules are ubiquitous in human activity. In a new tax...

The economic interpretations of the slave economies of the New World, a s well a s those social interpretations which adopt the neoclassical economic model but leave the economics out, assume everything they must prove. By retreating from the political economy from which their own methods derive, they ignore the extent to which the economic process permeates the society. They ignore, that is, t...

Based on the formation, essence, boundary and goal of different enterprise theories as review object, this paper reviews theory neoclassical economics. It is four mainstream schools contract stakeholder collective choice. Additionally, it includes a brief pertinent evaluation comparison these views.