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The Limits of Rationality by Karen Schweers Cook and Margaret Levi is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Limits of Rationality about?
Prevailing economic theory presumes that agents act rationally when they make decisions, striving to maximize the efficient use of their resources. Psychology has repeatedly challenged the rational choice paradigm with persuasive evidence that people do not always make the optimal choice. Yet the paradigm has proven so successful a predictor that its use continues to flourish, fueled by debate across the social sciences over why it works so well. Intended to introduce novices to rational choice theory, this accessible, interdisciplinary book collects writings by leading researchers. The Limits of Rationality illuminates the rational choice paradigm of social and political behavior itself, identifies its limitations, clarifies the nature of current controversies, and offers suggestions for improving current models. In the first section of the book, contributors consider the theoretical foundations of rational choice. Models of rational choice play an important role in providing a standard of human action and the bases for constitutional design, but do they also succeed as explanatory models of behavior? Do empirical failures of these explanatory models constitute a telling condemnat
Who reads The Limits of Rationality?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Karen Schweers Cook and Margaret Levi
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press; Brand: University Of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1990
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226742397
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Political Science