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Rational choice, collective decisions, and social welfare
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ISBN: 0521238625 9780521238625 9780521122559 0521122554 9780511897993 0511897995 Year: 1983 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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Left freely to themselves, a group of rational individuals often fail to cooperate even when the product of social cooperation is beneficial to all. Hence, the author argues, a rule of collective decision making is clearly needed that specifies how social cooperation should be organised among contributing individuals. Suzumura gives a systematic presentation of the Arrovian impossibility theorems of social choice theory, so as to describe and enumerate the various factors that are responsible for the stability of the voluntary association of free and rational individuals. Among other topics covered are an axiomatic characterisation of the concept of a rational choice, the simple majority decision rule and its extensions, the social choice implications of the concept of equity as nonenvy, the constrained majoritarian collective choice rules and the conflict between the Paretian ethics and the libertarian claims of individual rights.

Decision rules in the European Union : a rational choice perspective
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ISBN: 0333710797 Year: 2000 Publisher: Houndmills Basingstoke London Macmillan Press

Modeling, rationality, morality, and evolution
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ISBN: 0195125509 9780195125504 Year: 1998 Volume: 7 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Oxford university press,

Human nature and limits of science
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ISBN: 019926550X 0199248060 1282052675 9786612052675 0191530182 0191597368 9780199248063 Year: 2001 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Oxford university press,

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Dupré warns that our understanding of human nature is being distorted by two faulty and harmful forms of pseudo-scientific thinking. He claims it is important to resist scientism - an exaggerated conception of what science can be expected to do.

Theory and progress in social science
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ISBN: 0521574943 0521573653 0511600887 Year: 1997 Publisher: New York Cambridge ; Melbourne Cambridge University Press

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This work, sequel to the author's Theories of Civil Violence, attacks questions that have long troubled social science and social scientists - questions of the cumulative nature of social inquiry. Does the knowledge generated by the study of social, political, and economic life grow more comprehensive over time? These questions go to the heart of social scientists' soul-searching as to whether they are indeed engaged in 'science'. The author pursues these questions through in-depth examination of various theoretical programs currently influential in social science, including feminist social science, rational choice theory, network analysis and others.

Analyzing rational crime : models and methods
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ISBN: 1402016573 9048164419 9401707219 Year: 2003 Volume: 36 Publisher: Dordrecht Boston London Kluwer Academic Publishers

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Olof Dahlbäck's book breaks new ground for the analysis of crime from a rationality perspective by presenting models and methods that go far beyond those with which researchers have hitherto been equipped. The book examines single crimes, individual criminality, and societal crime, and it discusses thoroughly the general decision theoretical presuppositions necessary for analyzing these various types of crime. An expected utility maximization model for a single discrete choice regarding the commission of a crime is the foundation of most of the analyses presented. A version of this model is developed that permits interpersonal comparisons, and this basic model is used when deriving more complex models of crime as well as when analyzing the potential for such derivations. The rigorous, powerful methods suggested provide considerable opportunities for improving research and for seeing old problems in a new light.

Marx, critical theory, and religion : a critique of rational choice
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ISBN: 9004152385 9786611400033 1281400033 9047410181 9789004152380 9789047410188 9781281400031 6611400036 Year: 2006 Volume: 6 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,

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The Sociology of Religion has had several frameworks guiding its analysis including functionalism, interpretive sociology, phenomenology, symbolic interactionism and now rational choice theory. Marxism has tended to ignore religion assuming it is something that would eventually disappear even though it retained theological elements. This collection of essays brings together a group of scholars who use frameworks provided by Marx and Critical Theory in analyzing religion. It's goal is to establish a critical theory of religion within the sociology of religion as an alternative to rational choice. In doing so, it engages in a critique of the positivism, uncritical praise of the market (neoconservativism) and one dimensional conception of rationality of the rational choice theory of religion.

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Choix rationnel [Théorie du ] --- Critical theory --- Godsdienst en maatschappij --- Godsdienst en sociologie --- Godsdienst--Sociologie --- Godsdienstsociologie --- Keuzetheorie [Rationele ] --- Kritische theorie --- Maatschappij en godsdienst --- Rational choice theory --- Rationele keuzetheorie --- Religion and society --- Religion and sociology --- Religion et sociologie --- Religion et société --- Religion--Sociologie --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociologie [Godsdienst] --- Sociologie de la religion --- Sociologie en godsdienst --- Sociologie et religion --- Sociologie van de godsdienst --- Sociology [Religious ] --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Société et religion --- Théorie critique --- Marx, Karl, --- Critical theory. --- Rational choice theory. --- Religion and sociology. --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology --- Social choice --- Critical social theory --- Critical theory (Philosophy) --- Critical theory (Sociology) --- Negative philosophy --- Criticism (Philosophy) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Frankfurt school of sociology --- Socialism --- Marx, Karl --- Makesi, --- Ma-kʻo-ssu, --- 马克思, --- 馬克思, --- Marukusu, --- マルクス, --- Marx, Heinrich Karl, --- Marks, Karl, --- Marx, Carlos, --- Marks, K. --- Marŭkʻŭsŭ, Kʻal, --- 마르크스, 칼, --- Marksŭ, --- 맑스, --- Marks, Karol, --- Mác, Các, --- Marx, Karel, --- Marksas, Karolis, --- Marx, Carlo, --- Mác, C., --- מארכס, --- מארכס, קארל, --- מארכס, קרל, --- מארכס, ק --- מארקס --- מארקס, קארל --- מארקס, קארל, --- מארקס, קרל, --- מארקס, ק. --- מרכס, קרל --- מרכס, קרל, --- ماركس، كارل --- ماركس، كارل، --- Markso, Karlo, --- Marx, Karl, - 1818-1883

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