Rational Choice (Readings in Social & Political Theory)

✍ Scribed by Jon Elster (Editor)

• Publisher: New York University Press
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Series: Readings in Social & Political Theory
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This series brings together a carefully edited selection of the most influential and enduring articles on central topics in social and political theory. Each volume contains ten to twelve articles and an introductory essay by the editor.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Introduction JON ELSTER......Page 7
1. Prudence, Morality, and the Prisoner's Dilemma DEREK PARFIT......Page 40
2. Behaviour and the Concept of Preference AMARTYA SEN......Page 66
3. Advances in Understanding Rational Behavior JOHN C. HARSANYI......Page 88
4. The Economic Approach to Human Behavior GARY BECKER......Page 114
5. The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice AMOS TVERSKY AND DANIEL KAHNEMAN......Page 129
6. Bounded Rationality, Ambiguity, and the Engineering of Choice JAMES G. MARCH......Page 148
7. The Logic of Relative Frustration RAYMOND BOUDON......Page 177
8. The Political Economy of Peasant Society SAMUEL POPKIN......Page 203
9. A Neoclassical Theory of the State DOUGLASS NORTH......Page 254
Index......Page 267
Back Cover......Page 273