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 …

If we reassess the rationality question under the assumption that the uncertainty of the natural world is largely … theory of ecological rationality. The main casualty of this rebuilding process is optimality. Once we view optimality as a … formal implication of quantified uncertainty rather than an ecologically meaningful objective, the rationality question …

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