The bioeconomic causes of war
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The sources of human preferences and goals both tangible and intangible as being the final causes of human actions is a notion typically considered as being outside the traditional analytical boundaries of mainline economics. Bioeconomics suggests that human preferences have themselves evolved to serve economic functions in a broad sense, meaning that only those preferences were selected that promoted survival in a world of scarcity and competition. This premise is analyzed in relation war and peace and the proximate reasons for selecting the war option or peace option.
Publication Name: Managerial & Decision Economics
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0143-6570
Year: 1998
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The human nature of management consulting: judgement and expertise
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The trend toward management consulting by organizations has increasingly become marked. The size and the influence of the management consulting industry is growing. Management consultants are humans and biases, errors and the use of heuristics characterize human judgement and decision making and, therefore, the management consulting process. An analysis is made of management consulting in relation to behavioral decision theory and to evolutionary psychology.
Publication Name: Managerial & Decision Economics
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0143-6570
Year: 1998
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