significations (SIS). The core SIS of capitalism is rational mastery operating with computational rationality. Computational … rationality in turn rest on a particular understanding of how signification works: operational symbolism, as theories by Sybille … Krämer (following Leibniz). When the concept of the SIS of modern rationality was developed in the 1950s and 60s, bureaucracy …

We examine the various senses in which economist use the term "rationality" and then outline some of the commonly drawn …