Activity choice: A new approach to economic behavior☆

作者: Gordon C. Winston

DOI: 10.1016/0167-2681(87)90035-7

关键词: EstimationGoods and servicesJob satisfactionWork (electrical)Process (engineering)Value of timeEconomicsConsumption (economics)Outcome (game theory)Microeconomics

摘要: Abstract An individual's work and consumption behavior is modeled as the outcome of an optimal choice among activities at each moment within a ‘day’. The model describes time-shapes his demand for goods services, labor supply, day it allows analysis choices in which unusually complex motivations are incorporated. It applicable to questions job satisfaction, peak demands, shift working capital utilization, estimation ‘the value time’, goal process utilities, intrinsic extrinsic satisfactions, ‘labor’ versus ‘labor power’, issues compulsive self-control.

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