Rational irrationality: Some economics of self-management

Jean Tirole

doi:10.1016/S0014-2921(01)00206-9

Rational irrationality: Some economics of self-management

Jean Tirole^*

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Abstract

The paper first reviews some of the main challenges posed to our received economic paradigm by a variety of behaviors documented by psychologists and discusses possible responses to this challenge. It then describes a specific attempt at unifying a number of themes in social psychology using a parsimonious modeling of human behavior.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	633-655
Number of pages	23
Journal	European Economic Review
Volume	46
Issue number	4-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0014-2921(01)00206-9
State	Published - 2002
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Motivated beliefs
Rationality
Self-confidence
Willpower

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Finance
Economics and Econometrics

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