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Download or read book Homo Oeconomicus written by Gebhard Kirchgässner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-06-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The economic model of behaviour is fundamental not only in economic theory, but also in modern approaches of other social sciences, above all in political science and law. This book provides a comprehensive treatise of the general model, its philosophical and methodological foundations and its applications in different fields. In addition to the basic model, extensions to its assumptions are examined to account for complex applications like low-cost situations with moral behaviour.