TY - BOOK AU - Simon,Herbert Alexander TI - An empirically based microeconomics / T2 - Rafaele Mattioli Lectures SN - 0521624126 U1 - 338.5 21 PY - 1997/// CY - Cambridge : PB - Cambridge University Press, KW - Teoría de la elección racional N1 - Incluye referencias bibliográficas (páginas 199-215) e índice; First lecture: rationality in decision making ; 1. Development of the concept of rationality ; 2. Contemporary choice theory ; 3. The plurality of rationalities ; 4. The history reviewed ; 5. Empirical tests of theories ; Second lecture: the role of organisations in an economy ; 1. Organisations and markets ; 2. Altruism and organisational identification ; 3. Organization, management and the economy ; 4. Conclusion -- Third lecture: empirical evidence for economics ; 1. How much theory, and how concrete ; 2. Implications of data for theory ; 3.The sources of data on economic processes ; 4. Seeking empirical data outside the business firm ; 5. Decision making in the business firm: case studies ; 6. Economic history ; 7. Data from “applied” economics ; 8. Survey techniques ER -