The Internet and Social Media change our way of decision-making. We are no longer the independent decision makers we used to be. Instead, we have become networked minds, social decision-makers, more than ever before. This has several fundamental implications. First of all, our economic theories must change, and second, our economic institutions must be adapted to support the social decision-maker, the "homo socialis", rather than tailored to the perfect egoist, known as "homo economicus".
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Helbing, D. (2015). A New Kind of Economy is Born−Social Decision-Makers Beat the “Homo Economicus.” In Thinking Ahead - Essays on Big Data, Digital Revolution, and Participatory Market Society (pp. 57–65). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15078-9_5
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