TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kirchgässner,Gebhard
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Homo Oeconomicus: The Economic Model of Behaviour and Its Applications in Economics and Other Social Sciences 
T2  - The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences
SN  - 9780387727974
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Springer New York
KW  - ECONOMICS
KW  - METHODOLOGY
KW  - COMMERCIAL LAW
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCES
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - ECONOMICS/MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
KW  - LAW AND ECONOMICS
KW  - METHODOLOGY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
KW  - METHODOLOGY AND THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT
N1  - Introduction: Economics as a Positive Science -- The Economic Model of Behaviour -- Homo Oeconomicus in Economics -- Applications of the Economic Model of Behaviour in Other Social Sciences -- Low-Cost Situations and Moral Behaviour -- Limits to and Problems of the Application of the Economic Model of Behaviour -- Some 'Normative' Considerations -- Homo Oeconomicus and the Unity of the (Social) Sciences -- Concluding Remarks: Economic versus Sociological Approaches in the Social Sciences
N2  - The economic model of behaviour is fundamental not only in economic theory, but also in modern approaches of other social sciences, above all in political science and law. This book provides a comprehensive treatise of the general model, its philosophical and methodological foundations and its applications in different fields. In addition to the basic model, extensions to its assumptions are examined to account for complex applications like low-cost situations with moral behaviour. Finally, the book takes a broader perspective by evaluating the impact of the model on economic policy and on the development of the field of social science as a whole, such as the competition between individualistic and collectivist approaches
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72797-4
ER  -