Stock markets are very important in modern societies and their behaviour have serious implications in a wide spectrum of the world’s population. Investors, governing bodies and the society as a whole could benefit from better understanding of the behaviour of stock markets. The traditional approach to analyze such systems is the use of analytical models. However, the complexity of financial mar...

The inception of the project modernity resides in projection a self-fulfilling subjective rationality that leads both to better self-understanding as well control environment. Still, failing serve truly universal human agenda, narrowly propagated values Western culture. Part justifying such an ideological status quo is made possible by colonial sciences ascribed reason, logic and objectivity We...

Social science employs teleological explanations which depend upon the rationality principle, according to which people exhibit instrumental rationality. Popper points out that people also exhibit critical rationality, the tendency to stand back from, and to question or criticise, their views. I explain how our critical rationality impugns the explanatory value of the rationality principle and ...

Economists claim that principles of rationality are normative principles. Nevertheless, they go on to explain why it is in a person’s own interest to be rational. If this were true, being rational itself would be a means to an end, and rationality could be interpreted in a non-normative or naturalistic way. The alternative is not attractive: if the only argument in favor of principles of ration...

Using Foucault's (e.g., 1980) view on discourses and power, this Critical Discourse Analysis study examines how power circulates through material-discursive practices in IS development projects. The findings of this study indicate that one of the key power practices in IS development projects is what we call the 'guaranteeing of equality and rationality' – it sets up the technical-rational idea...

rationality of religious belief is one of the most important issues in the philosophy of religion and includes five epistemological approaches. up till recent times, evidentialism was the approach prevalent in the field of rationality of religious beliefs. and it was considered as a symbol of maximal rationalism. reformed epistemology, however, is a newly-emerged school which opposes evidential...

Technical innovation is the power and resource for the sustainable and healthy development of enterprises, and is related to the improvement of social productivity and the establishment and improvement of national innovation system. Technical innovation is the process of the enterprise using the original knowledge and transforming it into new technology. The input and output of knowledge of (i....