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History of Political Economy (2005) 37 (4): 763–765.
Published: 01 November 2005
... here for the modern experience of economics as
well.
Philip Mirowski, University of Notre Dame
Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice
Liberalism. By S. M. Amadae. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xii; 401...
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History of Political Economy (1982) 14 (1): 1–36.
Published: 01 March 1982
...
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...
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History of Political Economy (2018) 50 (1): 1–48.
Published: 01 March 2018
...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...
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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (3): 549–576.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Alexandra Quack; Catherine Herfeld Abstract One striking observation in the history of rational choice models is that those models have not only been used in economics but been spread widely across the social and behavioral sciences. How do such model transfers proceed? By closely studying...
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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (4): 609–638.
Published: 01 August 2023
...David Skarbek; Emily Skarbek Abstract Analytic narratives combine rational choice theory—often extensive-form, game-theoretic models—and qualitative evidence to understand historical and institutional questions in political economy. This article begins by characterizing the features of analytic...
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History of Political Economy (2010) 42 (Suppl_1): 105–130.
Published: 01 December 2010
... revolutions from two different traditions: the systems analysis perspective of the RAND Corporation and the rational choice analysis from the public choice school of Virginia. We situate their views with reference to explanations offered by other social scientists, especially modernization and relative...
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History of Political Economy (2014) 46 (1): 85–116.
Published: 01 March 2014
... to recent debates about the methodological foundations of rational choice theory among experimental psychologists, behavioral economists, neuroeconomists, and others. The second purpose of this article is to use material from the Paul Samuelson archives to help us understand how Samuelson, the originator...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (3): 537–560.
Published: 01 June 2024
... of game theory potentially helps us evaluate critiques of her work that focus on her use of rational choice models. [email protected] Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 common-pool resources the tragedy of the commons environment game theory institutions Törbel...
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History of Political Economy (2016) 48 (suppl_1): 1–15.
Published: 01 December 2016
... and psychology, though recently there has been a steady rise in the numbers of both psychologists and economists interested in behavioral economics. From both disciplines have come behavioral challenges to the strong version of rational choice thinking. And, along with them, have come challenges...
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History of Political Economy (2010) 42 (3): 443–467.
Published: 01 September 2010
... at the Cowles Commission. Nevertheless, he remains understudied by historians. This article uncovers the salient characteristics of his scientific vision in the forties and fifties, at the apex of his influence on the profession: his definition of economics as the science of rational choice; his emphasis...
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History of Political Economy (2016) 48 (suppl_1): 16–43.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of utility. Contemporary critics of rational choice theory take this naturalized image of the economic agent as its bogeyman, ignoring the social infrastructure that brought this agent, thinking as a merchant, into existence. The idea that we calculate captures a sociohistorical reality, rather than...
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History of Political Economy (2016) 48 (suppl_1): 198–225.
Published: 01 December 2016
... narrowing of modeling choices that would bind the rationality of the individual units would be best iterated through a process that takes into account the human factor. Interactions with experimental psychologists opened a door for economists to nonstandard modeling and an iterative, heuristic specification...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (S1): 270–293.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of mechanical or biological systems to the abstract theory of choice and rationality, and demonstrates how the group was related to—and communicated with—the scholars doing work in social choice, mechanism design, and formal political theory. It also speculates on one missed research opportunity of doing...
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History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (3): 471–491.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Juan Acosta; Goulven Rubin In this article we discuss the implementation of a portfolio choice framework and the inclusion of credit rationing by banks in several large-scale macroeconometric models built during the 1960s. We argue that the Fed-MIT-Penn model has a more transparent structure...
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History of Political Economy (2016) 48 (suppl_1): 316–331.
Published: 01 December 2016
...-part account of human choice, is a functional theory amounting, after some years of evolution, to a classification of types of deviation from “rational” reward maximization. Animal choice, on the other hand, can be explained causally as the outcome of competition between a set of possible responses...
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History of Political Economy (2015) 47 (1): 151–184.
Published: 01 March 2015
... that both countries obtain a
payoff of 5. If, on the contrary, Great Britain chooses free trade, the corn-
producing country may choose either autarky, obtaining a payoff of 5, or
free trade, obtaining a payoff of 10, and since 5 < 10, free trade is actually
the agricultural country’s rational choice...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (S1): 29–52.
Published: 01 December 2024
... in the Normandy. The rationale is given by the editors of the Economic Journal who pointed out that “the changes are now less fundamental and less rich in lessons for our own guidance.” 16 From the beginning, Singer had observed and compared the different rationing systems in Britain and Germany. He...
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History of Political Economy (2005) 37 (2): 227–232.
Published: 01 June 2005
.... Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 53.3 : 301 -17. Silk, Leonard. 1978 . Nobel Winner's Heretical Views. New York Times , 9 November, 53 . Simon, Herbert A. 1955 . A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice. Quarterly Journal of Economics 69.1 : 99 -118. ____. 1956 . Rational Choice...
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History of Political Economy (2011) 43 (4): 649–681.
Published: 01 November 2011
... : Cambridge University Press . Summers L. H. 1986 . Does the Stock Market Rationally Reflect Fundamental Values? Journal of Finance 41.3 : 591 – 601 . Thaler R. H. 1980 . Toward a Positive Theory of Consumer Choice . Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 1 : 39 – 60...
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History of Political Economy (2004) 36 (4): 735–760.
Published: 01 November 2004
... of the Contributions of Daniel Kahneman and Vernon Smith. Review of Political Economy . Arrow, Kenneth J. 1987 . Rationality of Self and Others in an Economic System. In Rational Choice: The Contrast between Economics and Psychology , edited by Robin M. Hogarth and Melvin W. Reder, 201 -16. Chicago: University...
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