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Rationality in Economics: Alternative Perspectives

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Part of the book series: Recent Economic Thought (RETH, volume 62)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
  2. Introduction

    • Ken Dennis
    Pages 1-4
  3. Rationality—A Global Concept

    • Irwin Lipnowski
    Pages 17-32
  4. Rationales for Rationality

    • Paul Krugman
    Pages 111-122
  5. The Need for Stimulating Action

    • Tibor Scitovsky
    Pages 137-146
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 147-149

About this book

Ideas linked to rational choice theory started to appear frequently in the economics literature in the 1960s and 1970s, but the attention given to rationality widened to include commentators presenting far-reaching appraisals and critiques. The literature grew to a steady flow and spanned diverse areas of thought including socialist and `rational-choice Marxist' assessments, and other approaches including institutional, sociological, psychological, ethical, choice-theoretical, strategic, and game-theoretical treatments of rationality.
This diversity of literature led to the creation of this volume. What does rationality mean? Was there some common core of meaning that held all of these seemingly disparate developments together, or were there discernable schools of thought with peculiarities that set them clearly apart from one another? The essays in this volume illustrate that diversity, and despite the variety of approaches there remains a common core of meaning that accommodates not so much a radically different set of concepts of rationality as a highly variegated array of methods and approaches to this subject. Contributors address topics of their choice on the concept of rationality in economics, and the selection of these contributors is meant to represent a variety of backgrounds and approaches.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

    Ken Dennis

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Rationality in Economics: Alternative Perspectives

  • Editors: Ken Dennis

  • Series Title: Recent Economic Thought

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4862-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-8114-3Published: 30 April 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6037-0Published: 04 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-4862-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-199X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 149

  • Topics: History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Political Philosophy

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