Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Liberalism: The Ideological Dimension of political correctness -- Chapter 3: Public Choice Theory as an explanatory framework for pc -- Chapter 4: Pc In Academia: The role of academics and University Administrators -- Chapter 5: Conclusion.

"Exploring the rationales behind legal anger, its logic and origins, this book draws on the perspectives of judges and prosecutors in Italy, Sweden, the USA, and Scotland. When do judges and prosecutors become angry in court, what do they become angry about, and which other emotions open up for...

It is known that no public goods mechanism can be Pareto efficient in Nash equilibrium, individually rational (IR), simple (using a one-dimensional message space), and dynamically stable. The Walker mechanism satisfies all but stability, while the Groves-Ledyard mechanism satisfies all but IR....

A central aspect of strategic reasoning in sequential games consists in anticipating how co-players would react to information about past play, which in turn depends on how co-players update and revise their beliefs. Several notions of belief system have been used to model how players’ beliefs...

This study considers the "rational negotiator model" (homo-negotiator) as a new scientific logical standard for negotiation studies, and proposes axioms, definitions, and principles of the rational negotiator model that are essential for this purpose.In negotiation studies, it is common to...

Applied behavioral science has made its mark identifying and correcting for cognitive biases and noise as causes of “irrational” decision-making that lead individuals to act against their self-interest. However, its reliance on surfacing behavioral insights largely through decontextualized...

The rational expectations hypothesis for survey and model-based inflation forecasts − from the Survey of Professional Forecasters and the Greenbook respectively − is examined by properly taking into account persistence in the data. The finding of nearunit-root effects in inflation and...