Part I: Individual Choice and Rationality -- Part II: Collective Choice and Collective Rationality -- Part III: Social … of social welfare. The topics include individual and collective rationality, motivation and intention in economics …, coercion, public goods, climate change, and voting theory. The book offers an excellent overview over latest research in these …

Economists’ “Irrational Passion for Dispassionate Rationality” -- The Methodological Constraints on the Rationality … Premise -- Human Motivation and Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hands” -- Rationality in Economic Thought: From Thomas Robert Malthus … to Alfred Marshall and Philip Wicksteed -- Rationality in Economic Thought: Frank Knight, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich …

This volume addresses the subject of uncertainty from the point of view of an extended conception of rationality. In …

This book deals with the economics of establishing a frontier by conquest or by peaceful settlement, the costs involved … -- 8. Natural Resources, 'Vent-for-Surplus' and the Staples Theory -- 9. Resource-Led Growth - A Long-Term Perspective: The … Economy of Banditry -- Epilogue: Frontiers - Theory and History …

This book provides an introduction to the theory of support-bargaining and money-bargaining. Support-bargaining arises … democratic societies. It is also the underlying mechanism of theory formation. Intellectual support-bargaining is the process by … which support is assembled for ideas and theories. Mainstream economic theory, or ‘neoclassical theory’, can be seen as …