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Decision Making as Output and Bounded Rationality

  The classical economics theories proceed on the assumption of rational agents. Rationality implies the economic agents undertake actions or exercise choices based on the cost-benefit analysis they undertake. The assumption further posits that there exists no information asymmetry and thus the agent is aware of all the costs and benefits associated with the choice he or she has exercised. The behavioral school contested the decision stating the decisions in practice are often irrational. Implied there is a continuous departure from rationality. Rationality in the views of the behavioral school is more an exception to the norm rather a rule. The past posts have discussed the limitations of this view by the behavioral school. Economics has often posited rationality in the context in which the choices are exercised rather than theoretical abstract view of rational action. Rational action in theory seems to be grounded in zero restraint situation yet in practice, there are numerous restra

The Post Pandemic Globalization

While the world fights the Wuhan originated virus, it is unlikely that the post COVID-19 world would be the same. As with any war, the post war architecture undergoes a transformation change with little similarity to the past. The new normal is something different. The current global architecture in social, economic, political, cultural, military and technological governance is a product of the discussions and thinking that emerged in the immediate post World War II regime. The end of the Cold War with the collapse of the Soviet Union or rather a little earlier through a collapse of the Berlin Wall drove the world into an era of unabashed globalization. The outcome of such an era was the optimization of business resources perhaps an euphemism for cost minimization given the level of price. This led the business to seek new hunting grounds for production something that led them to China. The post “ Coronavirus, Global Economy and Redundancy ” captures the need for redundancies du