Rational Fools: A Critique of the Behavioural Foundations of Economic Theory

Publication information:

Sen A. Rational Fools: A Critique of the Behavioural Foundations of Economic Theory. Philosophy and Public Affairs. 1977;6(Summer).

Abstract

Reprinted in H. Harris, ed., Scientific Models and Man: The Herbert Spencer Lectures 1976 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979); F. Hahn and M. Hollis, eds. Philosophy and Economic Theory (Oxford University Press, 1979); also in Jane Mansbridge, ed., Beyond Self-Interest (University of Chicago Press, 1990).