Self-Interest and Rationality: The Modern Connection

Ayman Reda
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Ayman Reda: The University of Michigan - Dearborn

Chapter Chapter 20 in Prophecy, Piety, and Profits, 2018, pp 291-302 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter engages in a detailed examination of the modern view of economic rationality, as represented in the Rational Choice Theory of human behavior. The chapter develops a thorough critique of this view of economic rationality, highlighting its many contradictions and calamities, with a special focus on the opinions of Amartya Sen, Andre Gorz, and Alasdair MacIntyre.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-56825-0_20

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