A Strategy of Decision explores and explain some striking discrepancies between theories of decision-making and the observed practices of people who successfully cope with the complex problem-solving required in matters of public policy.
A Strategy of Decision explores and explain some striking discrepancies between theories of decision-making and the observed practices of people who s...
This collection is a pioneering effort to bring together in fruitful interaction the two dominant perspectives on social rules. One, shared by philosophers, lawyers, anthropologists, and sociologists, directly invites formalization by a logic of rules. The other, originating with economists, emphasizes cost considerations and invites mathematical treatment, often in game-theoretical models for problems of coordinationmodels that some philosophers have taken up as well.Each perspective is represented by new and recent work that moves this important topic toward increased conceptual precision...
This collection is a pioneering effort to bring together in fruitful interaction the two dominant perspectives on social rules. One, shared by philoso...
With the help of this book, readers can gain practice asking moral questions about actions in business and finding answers to those questions. Asked frequently enough, readers will no longer take for granted the answers to questions like Is this deception? or Is it oppression?.
With the help of this book, readers can gain practice asking moral questions about actions in business and finding answers to those questions. Asked f...
The concept of needs works to sort out social policies. Yet the idea is in disrepute with many thinkers who, led by economists, accuse it of being too fluid, or too narrow, or of serving no purpose that the concept of preferences does not serve better. David Braybrooke refutes these charges by providing a model of how the concept of needs works when it is working well.
Originally published in 1987.
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The concept of needs works to sort out social policies. Yet the idea is in disrepute with many thinkers who, led by economists, accuse it of being ...