The Social Sciences and Rationality: Promise, Limits, and Problems

ISBN-13: 9781138516939 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 228 str.

Hudson Meadwell

Opis

In recent decades, rational choice theory has emerged as the single most powerful, controversial claimant to provide a unified, theoretical framework for all the social sciences

Spis treści

Introduction; 1: Rationality, Social and Economic; 1: Towards a Sociological Rational Choice Theory; 2: Rationality Revised: The Evolution of an Axiom in Economics; 3: Rationality in Economics and Econometrics: Theoretical Devices, Issues and Puzzles; 2: How Rational Are We Really? Views from Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science; 4: Systemism: The Alternative to Individualism and Holism; 5: Rational? Agents; 6: Penser la guerre, Clausewitz; 7: On the Use of the Prisoners’ Dilemma to Analyze the Relations Between Employment Security, Trust, and Effort; 8: Judges as Rational Actors: Strategic Behavior and the Emergence of Judicial Supremacy in Canada; 3: Wrapping Up; 9: Concluding Remarks 1; Conclusion

O autorze

Hudson Meadwell