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Informal institutions and the "weaknessesʺ of human behavior / Markus Göbel and Tobias Thomas

Göbel, Markus *1965-* ; Thomas, Tobias *1975-*

Englisch

Hamburg, 2005

Hamburg : HSU Univ. d. Bundeswehr

Online Ressource (177 KB, Text) : ill

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Druckausg.: Göbel, Markus *1965-*: Informal institutions and the "weaknesses" of human behavior. - Hamburg, 2005. - 16 Bl

URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:705-opus-16645

Institutioneller Wandel / Reform / Begrenzte Rationalität / Neue politische Ökonomie / Theorie / Soziale Norm

Arbeitspapier / Working paper / Graue Literatur / Non-commercial literature / Buch / Book / Online-Publikation / Online publication

Political reforms can be understood as the reconfiguration of formal institutions. The rational choice of formal institutions is the core topic of the New Institutional Economics research program. While bounded rationality is a core assumption of the New Institutional Economics and the reason for suboptimal behavior there, additional reference is made to the individual aspiration to intrapersonal consistency and interpersonal conformity here. These sources of a systematic deviation from the standard model of the homo oeconomicus result in systematic weaknesses of perception and deviations of behavior. This contribution connects shared mental models as informal institutions in the sense of North with well-established social psychological approaches and thereby leads to an integrative reflection of the insights in a stringent model framework.