...Peter V. Mini Book Reviews 291 Rational Economic Man: A Philosophical Critique of Neo-Classical Economics. By Martin Hollis and Edward Nell. London: Cambridge Uni- versity Press, 1975. Pp. 279. $14.95. The cooperative...

... Rational choice and morality: economics and classical philosophy DUv id Le v y I. Introduction Although a study of pre-Smithian economics is often regarded as deco- rative at best, it illuminates very well the metatheoretical framework of modern economic theory, i.e...

... Measurement 6.1 : 27 -56. Davies, Anthony, and Kajal Lahiri. 1998 . Reexamining the Rational Expectations Hypothesis Using Panel Data on Multiperiod Forecasts. In Analysis of Panels and Limited Dependent Variable Models , edited by C. Hsiao, K. Lahiri, H. H. Pesaran, and L. F. Lee. Cambridge and New...

.... This book manages a quantum leap beyond previous historical and philosophical meditations on the relationship between science and mathematics. Rather than treat- ing mathematical expression as the distillation of rational discourse, the innate 762 Book Reviews language of thought...

...E. Roy Weintraub By Esther-Mirjam Sent. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press , 1998 . x; 242 pp . Duke University Press 2000 BR.Hope32.1.bookreviews 5/4/00 1:45 PM Page 178 178 Book Reviews The Evolving Rationality...

...Paul Harrison Rational Equity Valuation at the Time of the South Sea Bubble Paul Harrison Persistent stock-price increases that have a questionable link to a firm’s fundamentals are often portrayed as irrational bubbles. While the recent performance of Internet stocks is the latest example...

... Raaij, W. Fred. 1999 . History of Economic Psychology. In Consumer Research and Economic Psychology , edited by Peter Earl and Simon Kemp, 289 -96. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar. Rational Economic Man and the Ignoble Savage John Lodewijks Whatever the value of their exotic fact...

..., Legislation, and Liberty. 3 vols. London: Routledge. Hoover, K. D. 1988. The New Classical Macroeconomics. Oxford: Blackwell. James, P. 1979. Population Malthus: His Life and Work. London: Routledge. Modeling Rational Agents: From Interwar Economics to Early Modern Game Theory. By Nicola Giocoli...

.... ____. 1885 . La comptabilité: Théorie, pratique, et enseignement . Paris: Librairie Illustrée. Medbery, James Knowles. 1870 . Men and Mysteries of Wall Street . Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co. Preda, Alex. 2004 . Informative Prices, Rational Investors: The Emergence of the Random Walk...

... of an Equilibrium for a Competitive Economy. Econometrica 22 : 265 -90. Bossons, J., and F. Modigliani. 1966 . Statistical vs. Structural Explanations of Understatement and Regressivity in“Rational” Expectations. Econometrica 34.2 : 347 -53. Bronfenbrenner, Martin. 1992 . Letter to authors , 19...

... . [Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph]. 1854 . Manuel du spéculateur à la Bourse . Paris: Garnier frères. Rapp, Rayna. 1999 . Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America . New York: Routledge. The Rationale of Market Fluctuations . 1876 . London: Effingham Wilson...

... . Principes et observations oeconomiques . 2 vols. Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey. Weulersse, Georges. 1910 . Le mouvement physiocratique, 1756-1770 . 2 vols. Paris: Felix Alcan. The Tableau Économique as Rational Recreation Loïc Charles Les sens sont le miroir dans lequel il...

...Rodney Maddock Muddock Rational expectations macrotheory 303 process, but there is no way of knowing for sure until a horse race is held. 25 Clearly, the horse race Sargent had in mind was to be an empirical one.26 But instead, also in 1975...

...Catherine Herfeld This article traces a normative turn between the middle of the 1940s and the early 1950s reflected in the reformulation, interpretation, and use of rational choice theories at the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics. This turn is paralleled by a transition from Jacob...

...Bennett T. McCallum This brief article corrects or refines a few details about the work and career of John F. Muth and his involvement in the creation of rational expectations. Correspondence may be addressed to Bennett T. McCallum, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000...

...Marcel Boumans The rational expectations revolution was not based only on the introduction of Muth’s idea of rational expectations to macroeconomics; this introduction alone cannot explain the more drastic changes to the mathematical toolbox, concepts, and research strategies since the 1980s...

... is with how economics leveraged psychology to grow a regulatory system when individual units pursuing their own interests did not promote the interests of society. This dilemma was one of a few stimuli generating a new focal point for rationality, that of efficient implementation. More recently, economists...

... for Economists. Review of Economics and Statistics 29.4 : 269 –73. ———. 1950a . Rational Behavior, Uncertain Prospects, Measurable Utility. Econometrica 18 : 111 –41. ———. 1950b . The Rationale of the Demand for Money and of “Money Illusion.” Metroeconomica 2 : 71 –100. ———. 1950c...

... Hopkins University Press. Nozick, Robert. 1993 . The Nature of Rationality . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Veblen, Thorstein. [1914] 1964 . The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts . New York: Norton. Rationality or Reasoning? Comment on Heath...

...-of-the-century evolution from an economist who described a psychophysical cardinalist marginal utility to an economist who emphasized ordi- nalist indexes of preferences illustrated by indifference curves. In Bruni’s apt words, this volume is centered on how “in 1899 Pareto had substituted a rational...