Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection

by Michael Taylor

Book Overview

A powerful and provocative critique of the foundations of Rational Choice theory and the economic way of thinking about the world, written by a former leading practitioner. The target is a dehumanizing ideology that cannot properly recognize that normal people have attachments and commitments to other people and to practices, projects, principles, and places, which provide them with desire-independent reasons for action, and that they are reflective...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521687047
• ISBN13: 9780521687041
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"