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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

A-Z of Organizing an Academic Conference

a. Gather the database- Who is your target audience? Do you have their email ids, or mobile nos. or social media ids etc. b. If not, can you organize it? these are highly manpower intensive, because we have student volunteer manpower, we are able to do it, yet it was in 2009 we were able to build database after that it is just refining c. If it not possible to organize, then check if it is possible to purchase bulk email extractors etc. they may not be perfect, they also require manpower to organize things.   d. In parallel, prepare the content for the brochure   e. the mailing list and the brochure should be ready around the same time   f. the mailing list has to be personalized but very difficult if you have large numbers. We have not been able to do so far.   g. Hit the first round of mailing and repeat the mailing over at least two iterations.   h. Use professional mass email sender to make job easy. This is first time we are using one at IBA   g. if possible