the purpose of the study was to verify, through the use of an experimental method, the assumption that the ‘economic human’ pays more attention to the externality he/she causes as the strength of externality increases. we used a social-experiment design within an undergraduate classroom to test assumptions, using statistical method. a lakeside plant was used as an example. our results confirmed...

The formation of an effective socially oriented economic system individual state has been carried out for a long time and one the main tools combining government entities is taxes other mandatory payments. One world trends in sphere relations between subjects emergence entrepreneurship, which embodies not only desire to pay within various models behavior entities, but also financing public need...

Introduction In a recent essay Christiano (2004) coined a distinction between 'mainstream' and 'revisionist' rational choice political theory, and cast us in the role of revisionist theorists 1. While we disagree with some aspects of Christiano's argument 2 , we broadly accept our designated role as revisionist public choice theorists. The major purposes of this brief paper are to provide a sum...

Many recent experiments in the field of behavioural economics appear to demonstrate a willingness of humans to behave altruistically, even when it is not in their interest to do so. This has led to the assertion that humans have evolved a special predisposition towards altruism. Recent studies have questioned this, and demonstrated that selfless cooperation does not hold up in controlled experi...