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¿ES NECESARIA UNA TEORÍA MULTINIVEL DEL AGENTE?: LA PERSPECTIVA DE VERNON SMITH

2017; Elsevier BV; Volume: 48; Issue: 188 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.rpd.2016.08.010

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Arturo Lara, Inti Barrientos,

Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics

Vernon Smith asserts that in order to realistically represent the multi-level nature of agents, it is necessary to go beyond economic theory. Drawing on resources from various disciplines, including the cognitive sciences, social psychology, and neuroscience, Smith builds two concepts: constructivist rationality (an individual’s conscious, deliberate use of reason, which leads to variability) and ecological rationality (a spontaneous, unintentional emergent social order, which acts as a mechanism of evolutionary selection). Key to this explanation is a three-level conceptualization of the agent: 1) the internal order of the mind; 2) the external order of social exchange; and 3) the extended order of markets. The existence of these levels allows agents to respond in complex ways adapted to their environments, representing the multi-level nature of human beings.