The effective use of development economic theories in practice is limited, the authors contend, by the lack of explicit criterion for judging their scientific content. The directional progress of critical research and teaching is also constrained by this deficiency. This study advances a meta-theory designed to assist in evaluating the scientific validity of theories in economic development and how these theories can be improved to assist social practice. Using this model, the study then examines existing theories, dividing them into explanatory and prescriptive theories. The explanatory...
The effective use of development economic theories in practice is limited, the authors contend, by the lack of explicit criterion for judging their...
This text offers the general scientific community the epistemic framework of fuzzy paradigm and the rationality it induces for approximate reasoning. It also describes the role fuzzy rationality plays in our information-knowledge enterprise.
This text offers the general scientific community the epistemic framework of fuzzy paradigm and the rationality it induces for approximate reasonin...
This volume is the second in a series on the role of fuzzy paradigm and fuzzy rationality within the theory of knowledge. This one is devoted to unified epistemic models and theories of decision-choice under total uncertainties.
This volume is the second in a series on the role of fuzzy paradigm and fuzzy rationality within the theory of knowledge. This one is devoted to un...
We do not perceive the present as it is and in totality, nor do we infer the future from the present with any high degree of dependability, nor yet do we accurately know the consequences of our own actions. In addition, there is a fourth source of error to be taken into account, for we do not execute actions in the precise form in which they are imaged and willed. Frank H. Knight R4.34, p. 202] The "degree" of certainty of confidence felt in the conclusion after it is reached cannot be ignored, for it is of the greatest practical signi- cance. The action which follows upon an opinion depends...
We do not perceive the present as it is and in totality, nor do we infer the future from the present with any high degree of dependability, nor yet do...
This monograph is devoted to the development of value theory of computable general prices in cost-benefit analysis under fuzzy rationality. The book demonstrates the use of fuzzy decision algorithms and logic to develop a comprehensive and multidisciplinary cost-benefit analysis by taking advantage of current scientific gains in fuzziness and soft computing. The theory is developed at a basic level of microeconomics leading to aggregation in fuzzy decision environment composed of subjective phenomenon, imprecision, approximations and problems of information elicitation. The book integrates...
This monograph is devoted to the development of value theory of computable general prices in cost-benefit analysis under fuzzy rationality. The boo...
The monograph is about a meta-theory of knowledge-production process and the logical pathway that connects the epistemic possibility to the epistemic reality. It examines the general conditions of paradigms for information processing and isolates the classical and fuzzy paradigms for comparative analysis. The sets of conditions that give rise to them are defined, stated and analyzed to abstract the corresponding sets of laws of thought. The fuzzy paradigm with its corresponding logic and mathematics is related to inexact symbolism for the defective information structure where the results of...
The monograph is about a meta-theory of knowledge-production process and the logical pathway that connects the epistemic possibility to the epistemic ...
This book surveys fuzzy rational foundations of the structure of exact and inexact sciences over epistemological space, drawing the conclusion that conditions of the fuzzy paradigm present a methodological unity where every zone of thought has fuzzy covering.
This book surveys fuzzy rational foundations of the structure of exact and inexact sciences over epistemological space, drawing the conclusion that co...
This book presents the development of a theory of social goal-objective formation and its relationship to national interest and social vision under a democratic decision-choice system with imperfect information structure. It provides a framework for the application of fuzzy logic and its mathematics to the analysis in resolving conflicts in individual preferences in the collective decision-choice space without violence. The book demonstrates how to use fuzzy logic and its mathematics in the study of economics, social sciences and other complex systems. It also presents the use of...
This book presents the development of a theory of social goal-objective formation and its relationship to national interest and social vision under a ...
This volume presents an analysis of the problems and solutions of the market mockery of the democratic collective decision-choice system with imperfect information structure composed of defective and deceptive structures using methods of fuzzy rationality.
The book is devoted to the political economy of rent-seeking, rent-protection and rent-harvesting to enhance profits under democratic collective decision-choice systems. The toolbox used in the monograph consists of methods of fuzzy decision, approximate reasoning, negotiation games and fuzzy mathematics. The monograph further...
This volume presents an analysis of the problems and solutions of the market mockery of the democratic collective decision-choice system with imper...
