Every day we all have to make trade-offs between various goods, services, and opportunities. So when we spend our money, most of us try to make sure the benefits of what we purchase or invest in ...

There has been sustained interest across behavioral and social sciences - including psychology, economics and education - in the question of whether people are born to be rational decision makers or ...

In much of the developing world, especially among rural populations who usually are the majority, field researchers find that fertility is high and fairly stable and that there is little evidence ...

Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 108, No. 1 (June 2012), pp. 49-60 (12 pages) This study examines the system-deciding principle of economic rationality for its logical soundness and effects in global ...

Money is a powerful force in human life and affairs. Its very power gives pause to those who look to evolution for full explanations of human behavior, because money has not existed long enough to ...

With the forces of inflation biting harder and with government initiatives to boost local agricultural efforts yet to kick in completely, the decision of the federal authorities to import essential ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - There has been interest across behavioral and social sciences - including psychology, economics and education - in whether people are born to be rational decision-makers or if ...

The implementation of a cost-reflective pricing formula for fuel could not have come at a more difficult and inopportune time for the government than now. A cost reflective fuel pricing formula that ...

A recent survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in China has drawn widespread attention for its revealing findings. The survey shows that no American company operating in China has chosen to ...