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Between mathematical formalism, normative choice rules, and the behavioural sciences : the emergence of rational choice theories in the late 1940s and early 1950s
Herfeld, Catherine - In: The European journal of the history of economic thought 24 (2017) 6, pp. 1277-1317
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011809527
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Axiomatic Choice Theory Traveling between Mathematical Formalism, Normative Choice Rules, and Psychological Measurement, 1944-1956
Herfeld, Catherine - 2013
The following analysis is meant to contribute to a history of rational choice theory. More specifically, I provide a multi-layered account of rational choice theory in terms of its biography as a scientific object. I argue that its axiomatic version, choice theory traveled between different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592209
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Between mathematical formalism, normative choice rules, and the behavioral sciences: The emergence of rational choice theories in the late 1940s and early 1950s
Herfeld, Catherine - 2017
This paper discusses why mathematical economists of the early Cold War period favored formal-axiomatic over behavioral choice theories. One reason was that formal-axiomatic theories allowed mathematical economists to improve the conceptual and theoretical foundations of economics and thereby to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761430
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From theories of human behavior to rules of rational choice: Tracing a normative turn at the cowles commission, 1943-1954
Herfeld, Catherine - 2017
This article traces a normative turn between the middle of the 1940s and the early 1950s reflected in the reformulation, interpretation, and use of rational choice theories at the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics. This turn is paralleled by a transition from Jacob Marschak's to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761431
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Between mathematical formalism, normative choice rules, and the behavioral sciences : the emergence of rational choice theories in the late 1940s and early 1950s
Herfeld, Catherine - 2017
This paper discusses why mathematical economists of the early Cold War period favored formal-axiomatic over behavioral choice theories. One reason was that formal-axiomatic theories allowed mathematical economists to improve the conceptual and theoretical foundations of economics and thereby to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011759791
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From theories of human behavior to rules of rational choice : tracing a normative turn at the cowles commission, 1943-1954
Herfeld, Catherine - 2017
This article traces a normative turn between the middle of the 1940s and the early 1950s reflected in the reformulation, interpretation, and use of rational choice theories at the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics. This turn is paralleled by a transition from Jacob Marschak's to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011759965
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Axiomatic choice theory traveling between mathematical formalism, normative choice rules and psychological measurement, 1944-1956
Herfeld, Catherine - 2013 - Draft 1.0
The following analysis is meant to contribute to a history of rational choice theory. More specifically, I provide a multi-layered account of rational choice theory in terms of its biography as a scientific object. I argue that its axiomatic version, choice theory traveled between different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011707612
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Axiomatic Choice Theory Traveling between Mathematical Formalism, Normative Choice Rules, and Psychological Measurement, 1944-1956
Herfeld, Catherine - Center for the History of Political Economy
The following analysis is meant to contribute to a history of rational choice theory. More specifically, I provide a multi-layered account of rational choice theory in terms of its biography as a scientific object. I argue that its axiomatic version, choice theory traveled between different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878265