... 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...

...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...

... 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...

... Reconsidered. Southern Economic Journal 49 . 3 : 717 -33. Darity Jr. William A. , and Bobbie L. Horn 1987b . Involuntary Unemployment Independent of the Labor Market. Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 10 . 2 : 216 -24. De Vroey , Michel. 1991 . Labour Rationing, Involuntary...

.... In Bruni’s apt words, this volume is centered on how “in 1899 Pareto had substituted a rational economic agent for the old utilitarian homo oeconomicus” (132). In particular, this volume sheds a rather harsh light on Hicks’s canonical and badly informed reading of the Paretian origin of the modern...

... Economics in Honor of Oskar Morgenstern , edited by Robert J. Aumann et al., 11 -42. Mannheim: Bibliographisches Institut. ____. 1986 . Rationality and Bounded Rationality. Nancy L. Schwartz Lecture, delivered May 1986 at the J. L. Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. ____. 1997...

... will be considered in the light of the criticism it received from Max Weber. It will be argued, first, that while what he called “calculation in kind” fails the demands of what Weber called the “formal” rationality of economic action in conditions of complex industrial societies, it is indispensable for assessing...

... Functions .” Studies in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics in Memory of Henry Schultz , edited by Lange O. McIntyre F. Yntema T. O. , 175 – 89 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Politicizing the Environment: (In)direct Inference, Rationality, and the Credibility...

.... 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...

...Rodney Maddock Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 The Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2600, Australia. Muddock Rational expectations macrotheory 303 process, but there is no way...

...Peter V. Mini Martin Hollis and Edward Nell. London: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. 279. $14.95. Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Book Reviews 291 Rational Economic Man: A Philosophical Critique of Neo...

... 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...

...: By reducing the interest of money to 31. per cent. without an act of Parliament . 1720 . London. Kress-Goldsmith Microfilm Collection. 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... and satisfactions. ’ ’ More explicitly he says that ‘ ‘ it is the every- day economic task to which we as a race owe our elementary training in rational thought or behavior.”14 When primitive man attempted to remedy his broken ax by means of magic incantations he was acting according to pre-rational...

..., Rational Investors: The Emergence of the Random Walk Hypothesis and the Nineteenth-Century “Science of Financial Investments” Alex Preda In a series of articles marking the recent anniversary of Louis Bachelier’s “Théorie de la spéculation,”historians have reevaluated Bachelier’s role...

... . 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...

..., 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...

... Martinet. ____. 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...