dc.contributor.author | Hodgson, G.M. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-03-08T08:31:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-03-08T08:31:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Hodgson , G M 2010 , ' Choice, habit and evolution ' , Journal of Evolutionary Economics , vol. 20 , no. 1 , pp. 1-18 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-009-0134-z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0936-9937 | |
dc.identifier.other | dspace: 2299/5441 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/5441 | |
dc.description | The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com Copyright Springer | |
dc.description.abstract | Several leading mainstream economists including Gary Becker have treated habit as serially correlated behaviour resulting from deliberate choices. This approach puts choice before habit but involves assumptions of extensive memory and decision-making capacity. By contrast, earlier authors such as William James, John Dewey and Thorstein Veblen saw deliberation and choice as a contingent outcome of habits, where the latter are defined in terms of acquired dispositions rather than overt behaviour. The approach of this second group is more consistent with an evolutionary perspective and the limited computational capacities of the human brain. © Springer-Verlag 2009. | en |
dc.format.extent | 18 | |
dc.format.extent | 288156 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Evolutionary Economics | |
dc.title | Choice, habit and evolution | en |
dc.contributor.institution | Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics | |
dc.contributor.institution | Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute | |
dc.contributor.institution | Centre for Research on Management, Economy and Society | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | |
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rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1007/s00191-009-0134-z | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
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