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We make choices all the time-about how to spend our money, about how to spend our time, about what to do with our lives. And we are also constantly judging the decisions other people make as rational or irrational. But what kind of criteria are we applying when we say that a choice is rational? What guides our own choices, especially in cases where we don't have complete information about the outcomes? What strategies should be applied in making decisions which affect a lot of people, as in show more the case of government policy? This book explores what it means to be rational in all these contexts. It introduces ideas from economics, philosophy, and other areas, showing how the theory applies to decisions in everyday life, and to particular situations such as gambling and the allocation of resources. show lessTags
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20 pages in and my brain hurts. DNF
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Choice Theory: A Very Short Introduction
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Any constitution which produces rational choices and which satisfies the independence and unanimity conditions must be dictatorial.
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- Anthropology, Sociology, Economics, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Philosophy, Science & Nature
- DDC/MDS
- 301.01 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Sociology and anthropology standard subdivisions of sociology and/or anthropology Philosophy and theory
- LCC
- HM495 .A448 — Social sciences Sociology (General) Sociology Theory. Method. Relations to other subjects
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