Plan for ST 2024 The course starts on March 7, 2024 7.3., 14.3.: Social Entrepreneurship - selected research questions, dr. Ondřej Kročil 21.3., 28.3.: Cognitive turn in economics, Neuroeconomics, dr. Michal Müller 4.4., 11.4.: Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Approach in Economics, dr. Jan Stoklasa 18.4., 25.4.: Welfare and Utility, dr. Pavel Kuchař
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Essay, Seminar Work
Attendance 100 %. Absence is possible only when a medical or official confirmation of the reason is provided. This confirmation has to be delivered directly to the guarantee of the course ass. prof. Jaroslava Kubátová no later than at the closest lecture after the absence (personally or via email). Active participation. Assigned tasks completion 100 % Requirements for specific topics incl. recommended literature: Note: The instructors will provide details and deadlines during their lectures and in Moodle. Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Approach in Economics Students are required to indentify possible benefits/shortcomings of the uses of fuzzy sets (in decision support, optimization, etc.) in their area of interest and suggest their possible use to solve a real life problem or to represent a real life system and summarize this in seminar work. The length of the seminar work is required to be 5-10 standard pages of text, academic formo f text including proper citations is required. The deadline for the submission will be specified via Moodle of the course. G. Bojadziev, M. Bojadziev. Fuzzy logic for business, finance and management. World Scientific, Singapore, New Jersey, London, Hong Kong, 2007. Smithson, M., and J. Verkuilen. Fuzzy Set Theory: Applications in the Social Sciences. Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2006. Stoklasa, J. Linguistic Models for Decision Support. Lappeenranta: Lappeenranta University of Technology, 2014. Social Entrepreneurship Requirements: short presentation on the topic "Social Entrepreneurship" and a follow-up essay, min length 4 standard pages Literature: KUMMITHA, R. K. R. 2017. Social Entrepreneurship and Social Inclusion. Palgrave Macmillan. DEFOURNY, J. and NYSSENS, M. 2010. Social Enterprise in Europe: At the Crossroads of Market, Public Policies and Third Sector. Policy and Society, 29(3), 231-242. YUNUS, M., MOINGEON, B. and LEHMANN-ORTEGA, L. 2010. Building social business models: lessons from the Grameen experience. Long Range Planning, 43(2-3), 308-325. Cognitive turn in economics and the emergence of new approaches and Neuroeconomics as efforts to unify economics, psychology and neuroscience: Requirements: Students are required to write an argumentative essay in which they will argue for their opinion on the question of "mindful" vs. "mindless" economics, which means whether data and information about mental states and neuronal processes are justifiable in economics. The work should have a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 10 standard pages (one standard page contains 1 800 characters including spaces). Literature: Gul, F., Pesendorfer, W. (2008). The case for mindless economics. In Caplin, A. a Schotter, A. (Eds.). The foundations of positive and normative economics. New York: Oxford University Press, s. 3-39. Camerer, C. F. (2008). The case for mindful economics. In Caplin, Andrew; Schotter, Andrew (Eds.). The foundations of positive and normative economics. New York: Oxford University Press, s. 43-69. Müller, M. (2018). Challenges and problems of neuroeconomics: Several tasks for social scientists. Teorie vědy / Theory of Science, 40(2), 157-190. Welfare and Utility Hausman, D. and McPherson, M. 2009. Preference Satisfaction and Welfare Economics. Economics and Philosophy, 25, 1-25. Alexandrova, A. 2012. Well-Being as an Object of Science. Philosophy of Science, 79 678-689. Colloquial Discussion Kahneman, D., Wakker, P. and Sarin, R. 1997. Back to Bentham? Explorations of experienced utility. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 112, 375-406. Fumagalli, R. 2013. The Futile Search for True Utility. Economics and Philosophy, 29, 325-347. Colloquial Discussion Grading scale: A 90-100 B 89-80 C 79-70 D 69-60 E 59-50 F 49 and less
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