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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

India's Lowest Cricket Test Scores

  The Adelaide test has seen a new low for India. The Indian team in the race for the World Test Championship victory has been shot down for 36 in its second innings thus its lowest score in Test cricket. The previous dubious distinction was held by Ajit Wadekar’s side of 1974 when it was dismissed for 42 at Lords. It too incidentally came in the second innings. As an aside, Indians were known to make great comebacks in second innings in the past. There was a saying why doesn’t India play the second innings first. In the current test, India did go with a sizeable advantage into the second innings. In a low scoring test, a first innings lead of even 50 would be quite handy and chasing something like 200+ in the fourth innings would anyway be difficult no matter the batting strength. Yet India handed the match on the platter with a rather timid display against some fine bowling from the Australians. No pitch would obviously be 36 all out pitch and it must be to the batsman who miserably