The long-standing critique of the ‘economic model of man’ has gained new impetus not least due to the broadening research in behavioral and experimental economics. Many of the critics have focused on the apparent difficulty of traditional rational choice theory to account for the role of moral or ethical concerns in human conduct, and a number of authors have suggested modifications in the stan...

Economic theory reduces the concept of rationality to internal consistency. The practice of economics, however, distinguishes between rational and irrational beliefs. There is therefore an interest in a theory of rational beliefs, and of the process by which beliefs are generated and justified. We argue that the Bayesian approach is unsatisfactory for this purpose, for several reasons. First, t...

In general, sexual behavior shapes in the depth of society and culture and social and cultural expectations influence to a great extent. Also sexual relations in Iran, take place outside of marriage with different reasons and in different forms. Some evidences imply an increasing trend of this style of life among young people, accordingly, this study wants to analyze this phenomenon and achieve...

As it is well known, there exists a chasm between the picture of perfect rationality on which modern mainstream economics is by and large built, and the limited reasoning and decision making abilities displayed by real agents. Herbert Simon groundbreaking work (cf., for instance, Simon 1955) pioneered research on bounded rationality. At the onset a study of administrative and organizational beh...

In this note we present the classical Enriques’ classification theorem for complex algebraic surfaces. We’ll recall basic facts about the theory of complex surfaces (structure theorems for birational maps), and discuss (using a modern (=Mori) approach) some important results like the Castelnuovo’s rationality criterion and the classification of minimal ruled surfaces. Finally, after the descrip...

Heinz Werner’s (1890–1964) book Comparative Psychology of Mental Development is reviewed in the context of the dynamics of values and types of scientific rationality, sciences of complexity, cognitive psychology and cultural studies. The reviewer describes developmental tasks of the orthogenetic law applied to dynamical systems that are far from equilibrium between integration and differentiati...