Rethinking rational choice theory : a companion on rational and moral action /

Rethinking rational choice theory : a companion on rational and moral action /

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Author / Creator:De Jonge, Jan.
Imprint:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Description:xiii, 355 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Rational choice theory.
Social choice.
Ethics.
Ethics.
Rational choice theory.
Social choice.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8769504
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ISBN:9780230277151 (alk. paper)
0230277152 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Part I. Understanding Rational Behaviour
  • Introduction
  • I. Rational Choice
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Rational choice theory: an outline
  • 3. Utility, preference and welfare
  • 4. Rationality and self-interest
  • 5. 'Das Adam Smith's Problem'
  • 6. Conclusion
  • II. Risky Choice
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Choice and risk
  • 3. Paradoxical choices
  • 4. Expected utility theory and market behaviour
  • 5. Expected utility theory: an evaluation
  • 6. Conclusion
  • III. Behavioural Economics
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Prospect theory and regret theory
  • 3. Behavioural economics
  • 4. Conclusion
  • IV. Neuroeconomics
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Neuroeconomics and brain imaging
  • 3. The reception of neuroeconomics in economic science
  • 4. The dual system hypothesis
  • 5. Brain and mind
  • 6. Mind and consciousness
  • 7. Conscious and unconscious thought
  • 8. The triumph of unconscious thought?
  • 9. Conclusion
  • V. Strategic Choice
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. How to play games
  • 3. Which games to play?
  • 4. Solutions to games
  • 5. Classical game theory: some conclusions
  • 6. Evolutionary game theory
  • 7. Behavioural game theory
  • 8. Conclusion
  • VI. Social Choice
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. From welfare economics to social choice theory
  • 3. The Paretian welfare function
  • 4. Rights and liberties
  • 5. Conclusion
  • VII. Intentional Action and Situational Logic
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Internalist and externalist explanations of human action
  • 3. Rational choice explanations and folk psychology
  • 4. The failure of Belief-Desire explanations
  • 5. The model of situational analysis
  • 6. Conclusion: unity of method?
  • VIII. Rethinking Rational Choice Theory
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A different approach to choice behaviour
  • 3. Institutional individualism
  • 4. Neuroeconomics and gene-culture co-evolution
  • 5. Ethics and economics
  • Part II. How to Choose
  • Introduction
  • IX. A Proper Choice
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The value of preferences
  • 3. Valuations and the naturalistic fallacy
  • 4. Symbolic utility
  • 5. Conclusion
  • X. Are Justifying Reasons Motivating?
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Internal and external reasons
  • 3. The subjective motivational set
  • 4. Motivated desires and motivating reasons
  • 5. Conclusion
  • XI. Framing and Ranking
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Aspect orderings and meta-rankings
  • 3. Conflicting values and multiple rankings
  • 4. Utilitarian consequentialism and moral considerations
  • 5. Conflicting desires and meta-preferences
  • 6. Conclusion
  • XII. Commitment
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Inclusive and exclusive accounts of well-being
  • 3. Commitment and identity
  • 4. Collective intentions
  • 5. Conclusion
  • XIII. Neuroscience and Moral Reasoning
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Moral dilemmas
  • 3. Reflections on the investigations
  • 4. Conclusion: moral judgments and moral theory
  • XIV. Rational and Moral Action
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Moral authority: is it real?
  • 3. Reasons and desires
  • 4. Consequential evaluation and responsible choice
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Part III. Principles of Justice
  • Introduction
  • XV. Justice as Impartiality
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Harsanyi's social welfare function
  • 3. Extended preferences
  • 4. The impartial observer theorem
  • 5. The problem of inequality
  • 6. Harsanyi and his critics
  • 7. Conclusion
  • XVI. Justice as Fairness
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Kantian constructivism
  • 3. The original position
  • 4. Justice as fairness
  • 5. The problem of stability
  • 6. Rawls and his critics
  • 7. Rawls and utilitarianism
  • 8. Conclusion
  • XVII. Justice as Mutual Advantage
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Hobbesian contractualism
  • 3. The initial bargaining position
  • 4. The market as a morally free zone
  • 5. Bargaining and justice
  • 6. Constrained maximization
  • 7. Gauthier and his critics
  • 8. The Archimedean point
  • 9. Conclusion
  • XVIII. Principles and Policies
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Unique principles, ideal institutions?
  • 3. The value of hypothetical constructs
  • 4. Conclusion: liberalism and justice
  • XIX. Equality, Liberty and Distributive Justice
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Egalitarian policies
  • 3. Liberty and responsibility
  • 4. Equality or priority
  • 5. Commodities and capabilities
  • 6. Social welfare
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • Free to Choose
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Hayek on socialism and social justice
  • 3. The constitution of liberty
  • 4. A free order as a spontaneous order
  • 5. Was Hayek a partisan theorist?
  • 6. Have free markets evolved spontaneously?
  • 7. Negative and positive liberty
  • 8. Free to choose
  • 9. Positive liberty and liberal democracy
  • 10. Conclusion
  • Summary
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects
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