LEADER 03479nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910814555203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-135-15033-8 010 $a1-135-15034-6 010 $a1-282-57017-X 010 $a9786612570179 010 $a0-203-85647-3 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203856475 035 $a(CKB)2670000000009349 035 $a(EBL)484777 035 $a(OCoLC)609856121 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000365011 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11293287 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000365011 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10401634 035 $a(PQKB)10624754 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC484777 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL484777 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10371547 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL257017 035 $a(OCoLC)610036850 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000009349 100 $a20090909d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRationality and explanation in economics /$fMaurice Lagueux 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAbingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York, NY $cRoutledge$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (296 p.) 225 0 $aRoutledge frontiers of political economy Rationality and explanation in economics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-74746-5 311 $a0-415-55121-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBook 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 predicament 327 $a7 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; Index 330 $aEconomical questions indisputably occupy a central place in everyday life. In order to clarify these questions, people generally turn to those who are familiar with economics. In answering such legitimate questions, economists propose explanations which rest on a few principles among which the rationality principle is by far the most fundamental. This principle assumes that people are rational, but what is meant by this has to be specified.Rationality and Explanation in Economics claims that only a minimal kind of rationality is required to 'animate' economic explanat 410 0$aRoutledge frontiers of political economy ;$v128. 606 $aRational expectations (Economic theory) 606 $aReason$xEconomic aspects 606 $aEconomics$xHistory 615 0$aRational expectations (Economic theory) 615 0$aReason$xEconomic aspects. 615 0$aEconomics$xHistory. 676 $a330.1 676 $a339 700 $aLagueux$b Maurice$0895495 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814555203321 996 $aRationality and explanation in economics$94084824 997 $aUNINA