Rational Choice History: A Case of Excessive Ambition

By J. Elster. American Political Science Review, 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences

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• Rational design in motion: Uncertainty and flexibility in the global climate regime (2010, background): “Ultimately, the best evidence for a rational choice argument exposes the rational choices themselves (Elster, 2000: 693).”
• Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade (2006, unknown): “In sociology and political science, a fierce debate has raged over its empirical usefulness (see Hechter 1992, Scott 1995, D.Green and Shapiro 1994, J.Friedman 1996, Scharpf 1997, Bates, Figueiredo, and Weingast,1998, Elster 2000, and Munck 2001).”