Rational Choice

Name: Rational Choice
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ISBN: 9780262518055

ISBN-10: 0262518058

ISBN-13: 9780262518055

Edition: 2010

Authors: Itzhak Gilboa

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This book offers a rigorous, concise, and nontechnical introduction to some of the fundamental insights of rational choice theory. It draws on formal theories of microeconomics, decision making, games, and social choice, and on ideas developed in philosophy, psychology, and sociology. Itzhak Gilboa argues that economic theory has provided a set of powerful models and broad insights that have changed the way we think about everyday life. He focuses on basic insights of the rational choice paradigm--the general conceptualization rather than a particular theory--that survive recent (and well-justified) critiques of economic theory's various failures. Gilboa explains the main concepts in…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/17/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.44" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Robert Dunham founded the Institute for Generative Leadership and the consulting company Enterprise Performance.Itzhak Gilboa is Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences at HEC (ï¿½cole des Hautes ï¿½tudes Commerciales), Paris, and Professor of Economics at Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University. He is the coauthor (with David Schmeidler) of Theory of Case-Based Decisions and the author of Theory of Decision under Uncertainty.