Rawlsian Political Analysis: Rethinking the Microfoundations of Social Science

by Paul Clements

Book Overview

In Rawlsian Political Analysis: Rethinking the Microfoundations of Social Science, Paul Clements develops a new, morally grounded model of political and social analysis as a critique of and improvement on both neoclassical economics and rational choice theory. What if practical reason is based not only on interests and ideas of the good, as these theories have it, but also on principles and sentiments of right? The answer, Clements argues,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268023719
• ISBN13: 9780268023713
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"