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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

Wikipedia and Indic Contestations

There is an interesting post by Dr. Subhash Kak on the medium. The post is titled “ Wikipedia or Trashpedia ”. It is a post or a rant or an exasperation or warning but nevertheless posits few pointers good or bad that cannot be ignored. Its contention is the on the nature and content of Wikipedia when it comes to dealing with non-European or non-Western cultures. Without doubt Wikipedia is the numero uno when it comes to information. It is perhaps the largest repository of information and to boost the same, it is dynamic. Hardly any information repository has come close to Wikipedia in achieving the compiling of information about almost everything under the sun and beyond in such a short period of time. It’s business model so as to speak has been of difference which has brought in numerous books and publications that extoll it to be classic example of what lies ahead in our production, distribution and consumption models. It is deemed as perfect platform for the emergence of what Toffl