Aug 102010
I like this, from page 194 of Amartya Sen’s ‚ÄòThe Idea of Justice’:
The insistence of so called rational choice theory on defining rationality as intelligent promotion of personal self-interest sells human reasoning extremely short.
Enough said, I think.
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[...] of that leadership was that it was not of the Left at all – embracing in its totality the mantra of rational choice theory and the market based ideology that [...]
[...] leadership was that it was not of the Left at all – embracing in its totality the mantra of rational choice theory and the market based ideology that [...]