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To what extent can we base suicide around the concept of rationality? Can we simply regard the suicide attempter as a 'victim' of temporary insanity? Alternatively, can we maintain the phenomenon within the comfortableness of the pursuit of utility maximisation? These head scratching questions essentially represent a more extreme test of “free will” economics. However, as argued in this entry, that test is actually only a side issue. Whilst it is quite appropriate to treat the assumption ...

You feel uninformed. You feel ignorant and incapable of making an informed decision. How should you respond? One would hope that you'd seek out the required information. One would hope that objective research methods would be adopted in order to ensure that you can contribute and engage in the debate.

How terribly optimistic! That takes effort. How can one avoid the dissonance associated with this knowledge hole? One can simply become completely dependent on a chosen 'expert'. That ...

Football to the cultured and soccer to the crass, what’s all the fuss about? Arguably just 22 millionaires spoiling a perfectly good lawn, can we simply understand world popularity through preference prance and the extraordinary entertainment engineered by kicking a bag of wind around a pitch? Or should we in fact whinge and whine with more waspishness? Consider, for example, the English Premier League: arguably the bee’s knees in terms of marvellously magic merriment. Which team wins? That is increasingly ...