---
_id: '60595'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "Many of the major international and intrastate crises and conflicts, but
    also the threat to democratic principles, are driven by belief systems and ideologies.
    They fuel political polarization, which is particularly evident in the battleground
    of social media. Nevertheless, we hardly pay attention to ideologies, their narratives,
    functions and organizations in economic theory today. Ideologies as “non-rational
    beliefs” seem incompatible with rationality in economic models. \r\n\r\nTherefore,
    the book examines the role of ideologies and belief systems in individual decision-making
    behavior from an economic and rational perspective. Due to the fact that people
    have incomplete information, belief systems and ideologies fulfill a number of
    important functions. While ideologies themselves serve psychological needs, they
    are used as a cognitive framework for rational decision-making once they have
    been adopted through a Bayesian learning process. They influence decisions in
    a wide range of areas, from consumption and work to politics. This is where the
    role of ideological organizations becomes important, because they determine the
    ideological direction of the narratives and their dissemination. \r\n\r\nThus,
    ideologies give a normative direction, for better or for worse. The “quality”
    of ideological leadership can be evaluated normatively on the basis of principles
    such as individual sovereignty and human dignity. A democratic discourse requires
    an information and communication system that enables an evaluation of precisely
    these ideologies, free from resource and information power.\r\n"
alternative_title:
- Belief Systems and Ideologies in Rational Decision-making
author:
- first_name: Thomas
  full_name: Gries, Thomas
  id: '186'
  last_name: Gries
- first_name: Carina
  full_name: Burs, Carina
  last_name: Burs
- first_name: Veronika
  full_name: Müller, Veronika
  last_name: Müller
citation:
  ama: Gries T, Burs C, Müller V. <i>The Economics of Ideologies</i>. Springer Nature
    Switzerland; 2025. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93514-5">10.1007/978-3-031-93514-5</a>
  apa: Gries, T., Burs, C., &#38; Müller, V. (2025). <i>The Economics of Ideologies</i>.
    Springer Nature Switzerland. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93514-5">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93514-5</a>
  bibtex: '@book{Gries_Burs_Müller_2025, place={Cham}, title={The Economics of Ideologies},
    DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93514-5">10.1007/978-3-031-93514-5</a>},
    publisher={Springer Nature Switzerland}, author={Gries, Thomas and Burs, Carina
    and Müller, Veronika}, year={2025} }'
  chicago: 'Gries, Thomas, Carina Burs, and Veronika Müller. <i>The Economics of Ideologies</i>.
    Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93514-5">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93514-5</a>.'
  ieee: 'T. Gries, C. Burs, and V. Müller, <i>The Economics of Ideologies</i>. Cham:
    Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025.'
  mla: Gries, Thomas, et al. <i>The Economics of Ideologies</i>. Springer Nature Switzerland,
    2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93514-5">10.1007/978-3-031-93514-5</a>.
  short: T. Gries, C. Burs, V. Müller, The Economics of Ideologies, Springer Nature
    Switzerland, Cham, 2025.
date_created: 2025-07-13T18:02:56Z
date_updated: 2025-11-09T09:52:35Z
ddc:
- '330'
department:
- _id: '19'
- _id: '202'
- _id: '475'
- _id: '200'
doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-93514-5
language:
- iso: eng
place: Cham
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - '9783031935138'
  - '9783031935145'
  issn:
  - 2731-5908
  - 2731-5916
publication_status: published
publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
status: public
title: The Economics of Ideologies
type: book
user_id: '186'
year: '2025'
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