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 unique book develops an operational approach to preference and rationality as the author employs operators over … binary relations to capture the concept of rationality. A preference is a basis of individual behavior and social judgment … demanding; and then, weaker rationality conditions are introduced by researchers. This book argues that the preference …

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