Pragmatic behaviour: pragmatism as a philosophy for behavioural economics

Garcés, Pablo

doi:10.46298/jpe.8741

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“…It explains about 16% of the cumulative variance and comprises four variables (Table 4). According to Garcés (2022), pragmatic behaviour entails a selfdirected course of action and encompasses a fourfold process. The process involve showing an indication to take-action, interpreting the indication into a meaningful strategy, then formulating a procedure for the action, and lastly, carrying out the eventual action.…”

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Contractors’ carbon reduction behaviour: UK construction professionals’ perspective

Arogundade,

Dulaimi,

Ajayi

et al. 2024

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Purpose The decisions of contractors could impact the reduction of construction carbon footprint. These decisions are linked to the belief of contractors which equally affects how they behave while delivering projects. This study aims to investigate the behavioural tendencies of contractors that could lead to carbon minimisation during the execution of construction projects. Design/methodology/approach An industry survey was performed amongst 41 UK construction professionals. Spearman’s correlation and factor analysis were used to analyse the data. Findings The result of the Spearman’s correlation gave rise to 14 contractors’ carbon reduction behaviour (CCRB) variables and their factor analysis yielded two distinct factors, namely, contractors’ consummate carbon reduction behaviour and contractors’ pragmatic carbon reduction behaviour. The findings suggest that in the UK, contractors are willing to take voluntary practical steps to decrease the carbon footprint of construction projects. Practical implications This finding might be unexpected to construction stakeholders, especially construction clients who may believe that infusing strict carbon reduction obligations in contracts is sufficient in nudging contractors to lessen the carbon impact of projects. Originality/value The study attempted to quantitatively derive CCRB, thereby extending the breadth of knowledge in the construction carbon reduction domain.

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Section: Contractors' Pragmatic Carbon Reduction Behaviourmentioning

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Contractors’ carbon reduction behaviour: UK construction professionals’ perspective

Arogundade,

Dulaimi,

Ajayi

et al. 2024

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“…A person's action in this theory is purposive. The purposive action in question is an action based on the desire to gain an advantage over his choice (Garcés 2022). Rational Choice Theory is used to analyze the decision-making fisherman's decision to continue his profession as a fisherman.…”

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The Openness of Access and Behavior of Disposing of Garbage on the Riverbanks

Nurhayati,

Burhanto

2023

JSISCH

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The people of Loji village have limited access to the riverbanks which makes them a place to live rubbish. The purpose of this study is to show what kind of behavior and access the village community Loji behaved to throw garbage on the riverbank. The method used is interview and observation. The results of this study found that the open access factor makes people feel now the riverbanks have become common property and are used together to be used as a place of waste disposal. The concepts of access and rational choice are used because they can explain the behavior of residents to dispose of waste that pollutes and damages the environment.

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A capabilitarian behavioral economics: what behavioral economics can learn from the capability approach

Garces-Velastegui

2024

Int Rev Econ

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Behavioral economics (BE) accounts for how people actually behave has proven to be very influential in multiple domains. Its insights have dislodged settled assumptions and put forward an improved understanding of human beings and their agency. Although it challenges the conventional approach, advanced by rational choice theory (RCT), because it also formally builds on it, BE shares some of RCT’s advantages as well as its shortcomings. One the one hand, it shares an important focus on freedom. On the other, it is limited to self-interest as the main motivation for human action. The latter is a limitation since human experience is much richer than that. To complement BE’s limitation, this paper suggests Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach (CA). This framework places humans and their quality of life at the locus of attention for the assessment of social states. To do so, it challenges RCT in a more fundamental way and it provides a richer account of human agency, which includes both self-regarding as well as other-regarding motivations. This combination enriches BE’s realism as well as practicality.

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Pragmatic behaviour: pragmatism as a philosophy for behavioural economics

Cited by 5 publications

References 24 publications

Contractors’ carbon reduction behaviour: UK construction professionals’ perspective

Contractors’ carbon reduction behaviour: UK construction professionals’ perspective

The Openness of Access and Behavior of Disposing of Garbage on the Riverbanks

A capabilitarian behavioral economics: what behavioral economics can learn from the capability approach

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