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Bounded Rationality

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Extendable Rationality

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The study of rationality has always dealt with mathematics. The analysis of and the solution to a problem have always been connected to the logical ability of the individual so that tests like IQs and GMATs or GREs are supposed to predict how successful a person will be in the real world.i

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Secchi, D. (2011). Bounded Rationality. In: Extendable Rationality. Organizational Change and Innovation, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7542-3_3

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