The varieties of economic rationality : from Adam Smith to comtemporary behavioural and evolutionary economics / Michel S. Zouboulakis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zouboulakis, Michel S., author.

Series:

Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 160.

Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 160

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--History.

Economics.

History.

Rational choice theory--History.

Rational choice theory.

Rational expectations (Economic theory)--History.

Rational expectations (Economic theory).

Physical Description:

xx, 166 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon New York Routledge, 2014.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.Adam Smith and the idea of morally constrained rationality

2.John Stuart Mill and the concept of socially embedded rationality

3.William Stanley Jevons and the concept of rationality as maximization

4.Vilfredo Pareto and the concept of instrumental rationality

5.Lionel Robbins and consistency of choices under scarcity

6.Neoclassical rationality under fire: theoretical, methodological and empirical critique in the late 1930s

7.Three conventionalist responses: Machlup, Samuelson and Friedman

8.Popper's retreat and the "principle of rationality"

9.Probabilistic choice and strategic rationality

10.Herbert Simon and the concept of bounded rationality

11.Rationality in behavioural economics

12.The rationality of embedded individuals.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [140]-159) and index.

ISBN:

0415530849

9780415530842

OCLC:

874211275

Publisher Number:

60001884623