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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

Sports Organizations and Structures

The post “ Defining a Sport !” attempted to define what constitutes a sport and what does not. It however does not claim to be perfect since there would be grey areas neither it factors in or seeks to define mind sports.   Having attempted to define a sport, the next layer would be classifying the sports. The Sports Encyclopaedia of 2003 claims to trace more than 8000 indigenous sports and games.   Yet, there are several grey areas. One would wonder whether test cricket, one day cricket and T20 are different sports altogether or should they be classified as variations of a single sport. In athletics where there are numerous events often with tenuous linkages, it is difficult to classify whether all belong to the same sport   or some clustering is essential as with sprint running, middle distance, throws, jumps etc. Globally, sports have sought to be classified based on the organizations governing the sport. As the International Olympic Committee (IOC) requires, one only inte