03479nam 2200709Ia 450 991081455520332120200520144314.01-135-15033-81-135-15034-61-282-57017-X97866125701790-203-85647-310.4324/9780203856475 (CKB)2670000000009349(EBL)484777(OCoLC)609856121(SSID)ssj0000365011(PQKBManifestationID)11293287(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000365011(PQKBWorkID)10401634(PQKB)10624754(MiAaPQ)EBC484777(Au-PeEL)EBL484777(CaPaEBR)ebr10371547(CaONFJC)MIL257017(OCoLC)610036850(EXLCZ)99267000000000934920090909d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRationality and explanation in economics /Maurice Lagueux1st ed.Abingdon, Oxon ;New York, NY Routledge20101 online resource (296 p.)Routledge frontiers of political economy Rationality and explanation in economics Description based upon print version of record.0-415-74746-5 0-415-55121-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Rationality in the history of economic thought; 1 Rationality in economics before the Second World War; 2 The hardly consistent story of rationality-consistency; Part II: Objections to the notion of minimal rationality; 3 Can methodological individualism survive?; 4 Is still some room left for irrationality?; 5 Minimal and maximal rationality: Loosely defined concepts?; Part III: But is rationality really necessary in economics?; 6 Why unrealism of assumptions remains a predicament7 Explaining in the absence of rationalityPart IV: Regarding economic explanations; 8 Rationality and natural selection in economics; 9 Theories of explanation applied to economics; Epilogue; Notes; References; IndexEconomical questions indisputably occupy a central place in everyday life. In order to clarify these questions, people generally turn to those who are familiar with economics. In answering such legitimate questions, economists propose explanations which rest on a few principles among which the rationality principle is by far the most fundamental. This principle assumes that people are rational, but what is meant by this has to be specified.Rationality and Explanation in Economics claims that only a minimal kind of rationality is required to 'animate' economic explanatRoutledge frontiers of political economy ;128.Rational expectations (Economic theory)ReasonEconomic aspectsEconomicsHistoryRational expectations (Economic theory)ReasonEconomic aspects.EconomicsHistory.330.1339Lagueux Maurice895495MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814555203321Rationality and explanation in economics4084824UNINA