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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 Digital and the Market

Internet, predictably, provoked the time-honored silhouette of business, government and society interfaces. Critics notwithstanding, pervasive digitalization, indubitably, is causative to geometric spread of organically evolved markets. The ubiquitous internet ecosystem, chaotic as it may seem, is trenchant in dismantling the sources of market failure. Changing Price Elasticity Price discrimination manifests itself from airfare differentials across portals; loan and deposit rate differential across banks and among customers of similar hue, inter-firm differentials in insurance premium, among others. Information asymmetry surfaces in consequence of cognitive costs of choice evaluation thus making the goods price inelastic. Sites like momondo.com, Google flights, policybazaar.com, paisabazaar.com, confused.com etc. by presenting a simple comparison of prices across firms reduce switching costs thus making products price elastic, consequently lower prices. Narrowing price dif