Is Normative Rational Choice Theory Self-Defeating  

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Christiano, Thomas

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethics: An International Journal of Social Political and Legal Philosophy vol. 115 no. 1 (Oct. 2004), page 122-141.
Topik: Normative; Rational; Determinism; Hardin's Basic

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE44.19 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Rational choice approaches to politics have, in the main, been concerned to pursue two principal aims. First, they attempt to explain and predict the operation of economic and political institutional structures on the basis of a conception of human beings as homo economics. Public choice theory, game theory, neoclassical economic theory, law and economics, and some of social theory all share this explanatory aim. Second, rational choice theories attempts to justify and criticize institutional structures by showing that when in place, the institutions are likely bring about outcomes that are done with eye justifying policy proposals for the reform of those institutions and in some cases even the total transformation of economic and political institutions. This is the practical aim of rational choice theory. In the pursuit of the explanatory and practical aims, these approaches conceive of rational agents as pursuing their own interest understood broadly in conflictual terms (that is where the interests are not inherently harmonious). The rational choice theorist then argues in favor of those institutions that tend to bring about good outcomes given these assumptions. The explanatory and practical aims are at odds with one another, or so I shall argue.

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