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Author: Robert Grafstein
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1999-10-25
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0472110543
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Author: Edward F. McClennen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990-05-25
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 9780521360470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this major contribution to the theory of rational choice the author sets out the foundations of rational choice, and then sketches a dynamic choice framework in which principles of ordering and independence follow from a number of apparently plausible conditions. However there is potential conflict among these conditions, and when they are weakened to avoid it, the usual foundations of rational choice no longer prevail. The thrust of the argument is to suggest that the theory of rational choice is less determinate than many suppose.
Author: Reid Hastie
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 1412959039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the Second Edition of Rational Choice in an Uncertain World the authors compare the basic principles of rationality with actual behaviour in making decisions. They describe theories and research findings from the field of judgment and decision making in a non-technical manner, using anecdotes as a teaching device. Intended as an introductory textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, the material not only is of scholarly interest but is practical as well. The Second Edition includes: - more coverage on the role of emotions, happiness, and general well-being in decisions - a summary of the new research on the neuroscience of decision processes - more discussion of the adaptive value of (non-rational heuristics) - expansion of the graphics for decision trees, probability trees, and Venn diagrams.
Author: David Hodgson
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2012-01-04
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0199845301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author examines the idea of free will, arguing that consideration of human rationality and consciousness together gives us free will.
Author: Walter Bossert
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010-10-15
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0674052994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Consistency, Choice, and Rationality, economic theorists Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura present a thorough mathematical treatment of Suzumura consistency, an alternative to established coherence properties such as transitivity, quasi-transitivity, or acyclicity. Applications in individual and social choice theory, fields important not only to economics but also to philosophy and political science, are discussed. Specifically, the authors explore topics such as rational choice and revealed preference theory, and collective decision making in an atemporal framework as well as in an intergenerational setting.
Author: Itzhak Gilboa
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2012-08-17
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 0262518058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA nontechnical, concise, and rigorous introduction to the rational choice paradigm, focusing on basic insights applicable in fields ranging from economics to philosophy. This book offers a rigorous, concise, and nontechnical introduction to some of the fundamental insights of rational choice theory. It draws on formal theories of microeconomics, decision making, games, and social choice, and on ideas developed in philosophy, psychology, and sociology. Itzhak Gilboa argues that economic theory has provided a set of powerful models and broad insights that have changed the way we think about everyday life. He focuses on basic insights of the rational choice paradigm—the general conceptualization rather than a particular theory—that survive recent (and well-justified) critiques of economic theory's various failures. Gilboa explains the main concepts in language accessible to the nonspecialist, offering a nonmathematical guide to some of the main ideas developed in economic theory in the second half of the twentieth century. Chapters cover feasibility and desirability, utility maximization, constrained optimization, expected utility, probability and statistics, aggregation of preferences, games and equilibria, free markets, and rationality and emotions. Online appendixes offer additional material, including a survey of relevant mathematical concepts.
Author: Arthur Lupia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-10-09
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780521653329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdvances in the social sciences are used to uncover cognitive foundations of social decision making.
Author: Mary Zey
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780803951365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRational Choice Theory and Organizational Theory is written in response to the neo-classical economic rational choice theories and organizational economic theories which have emerged in the past decade and gained center stage in current organizational analysis.
Author: José Luis Bermúdez
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2009-02-19
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0191609455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe concept of rationality is a common thread through the human and social sciences — from political science to philosophy, from economics to sociology, and from management science to decision analysis. But what counts as rational action and rational behavior? José Luis Bermúdez explores decision theory as a theory of rationality. Decision theory is the mathematical theory of choice and for many social scientists it makes the concept of rationality mathematically tractable and scientifically legitimate. Yet rationality is a concept with several dimensions and the theory of rationality has different roles to play. It plays an action-guiding role (prescribing what counts as a rational solution of a given decision problem). It plays a normative role (giving us the tools to pass judgment not just on how a decision problem was solved, but also on how it was set up in the first place). And it plays a predictive/explanatory role (telling us how rational agents will behave, or why they did what they did). This controversial but accessible book shows that decision theory cannot play all of these roles simultaneously. And yet, it argues, no theory of rationality can play one role without playing the other two. The conclusion is that there is no hope of taking decision theory as a theory of rationality.
Author: Gidon Gottlieb
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-10-30
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1000735540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1968. This is a critical study of the concept of ‘rule’ featuring in law, ethics and much philosophical analysis which the author uses to investigate the concept of ‘rationality’. The author indicates in what manner the modes of reasoning involved in reliance upon rules are unique and in what fashion they provide an alternative both to the modes of logico-mathematical reasoning and to the modes of scientific reasoning. This prepares the groundwork for a methodology meeting the requirements of the fields using rules such as law and ethics which could be significant for communications theory and the use of computers in normative fields. Other substantive issues related to the mainstream of legal philosophy are discussed - theories of interpretation, the notion of purpose and the requirements of principled decision-making. The book utilizes examples drawn from English and American legal decisions to suggest how the positions of legal positivism and of natural law are equally artificial and misleading.
