In 1940 Schumpeter wrote a paper entitled: "The Meaning of Rationality in the Social Sciences", which was intended to …, that he took the initiative to start. In this paper Schumpeter develops thoroughly his own conception of rationality in … indeed interestingly anticipates some important debates concerning the problem of rationality and behavior in economics and …

rationality through which Hume's theory is apprehended, is highly disputable, from the point of view of both standard choice … theory and Hume's theory of passions. Nonetheless, Sugden's criterion of rationality might be restated in Humean terms as a …Facing R. Sugden's criticism of our interpretation, it is shown in this paper that rationality appears as a possible …

science and, thus, has neglected a specific kind of rationality (the “creative rationality”). Integrating this kind of … rationality in the design education drives us to invent“pedagogy of the adventure”. …

The purpose of this paper is to introduce explicitly pleasure and belief in what aims at being a Humean theory of …

For the reader who considers economic theory of choice as a special case of a more general theory of action, Hume … not seem to have given any evidence which would favour what we nowadays consider as the kind of rationality involved in … process, described by means of a decision algorithm which aims at representing Hume's theory of choice. …

The purpose of this paper is to introduce explicitly pleasure and belief in what aims at being a Humean theory of …