Kirchgässner, Gebhard - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) 149 (2013) I, pp. 1-26
The weak rationality principle is not an empirical statement but a heuristic rule for how to proceed in social sciences. It is a necessary ingredient of any 'understanding' social science in the Weberian sense. In this paper, first this principle and its role in economic theorizing are...