The aim of this paper is to evidence that non-economic factors, such as culture, emotions and ethics, can be seen an important force in influencing human economic behavior action. This conducted by putting the homo economicus notion into perspective history thought and, more specifically, John Stuart Mill. More Mill’s institutional individualism, presented his System Logic (1843), relativity do...

with the publication of the first book by menger, the austrian school was established in 1871. while different factors such as migration of the austrian scholars to foreign countries and focus on market mechanisms against the ideas of down drift from crisis led to the decline of this school in 1930s, it reemerged in 1970s due to the same factors, too. the purposes in this research– by using lib...

In this chapter the relationships between cognitive agents’ architecture and social phenomena produced by their behavior are discussed. What is needed in an agent’s architecture designed for MAS, social theory, and a non reductive social simulation (Sun, 2001)? Which are the peculiar features of Social Structures as they emerge among cognitive agents? Which are the needed mental representations...

• Context: concern with individualism as a modern phenomenon; attempt to present an ethical defense of individualism; how to reconcile individualism with ethical concern for other members of society? Durkheim rejects both the utilitarian defense of individualism found in classical liberalism and the collectivist rejection of individualism advanced by the church, the military, and the authoritar...

The theory of symbolic racism places its origins in a blend of anti-Black affect and conservative values, particularly individualism. We clarify that hypothesis, test it directly, and report several findings consistent with it. Study 1 shows that racial prejudice and general political conservatism fall into 2 separate factors, with symbolic racism loading about equally on both. Study 2 found th...

Monique Deveaux’s Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-led Social Movements makes a significant contribution to contemporary capability theories by challenging their individualism. Mainline versions of the Capabilities Approach (CA), including those developed Martha Nussbaum, Amartya Sen, Ingrid Robeyns, insist on methodological normative And with good reason: communitarianism most often reinscribes p...

In social sciences and, in particular, economics the debate on most adequate model of explanation phenomena has been centred around two models: Methodological Individualism and Holism. While claims to be rigorous attempt explain by reducing them their ultimate components, Holism stresses primacy relation, outside which individuals cannot understood as analytical units. analysis, we will refer w...

BACKGROUND The paper describes the origins of the Value of Children (VOC) approach to the cross-cultural research on fertility behavior around the Pacific Rim, and critically discusses its shortcomings at this stage. OBJECTIVE The paper then demonstrates how the approach derives its theoretical coherence from the theory of social production functions, making reference to empirical evidence. RES...

There are two urgent questions in academic research on Communities of Practice. The first is how to safeguard the sustainability of a Community of Practice (CoP). The second is how to motivate people in order to participate in and to contribute to such a community. In this paper we try to answer these questions by assuming networked individualism. This notion refers to the observation that indi...