TY - JOUR

T1 - Ambiguity of Rationality

AU - Chakravarty, Shanti

N1 - © The Institute of Mind and Behavior, Inc., P.O. Box 522, Village Station, New York City, New York, 10014. All rights reserved. Written permission must be obtained from The Institute of Mind and Behavior for copying or reprinting text of more than 1,000 words. Permissions are normally granted contingent upon similar permission from the author. Printed in the United States of America. All copyrights and permissions which apply to printed copies of the Journal also apply to all electronically published materials simultaneously.

PY - 2020/4

Y1 - 2020/4

N2 - Economics books have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Not this one. Most monographs in economics pitch an argument proceeding as follows. First the thesis is outlined. Then the supporting material is presented. Finally, a thread knits this material together in support of the original thesis. Manfred Holler dispenses with this structure for a reason. He wanders through ideas in economics, philosophy, history, and art interspersed with discussion of game theory in the context of a movie, flagging up issues in rational choice theory in a truly inter-disciplinary manner.

AB - Economics books have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Not this one. Most monographs in economics pitch an argument proceeding as follows. First the thesis is outlined. Then the supporting material is presented. Finally, a thread knits this material together in support of the original thesis. Manfred Holler dispenses with this structure for a reason. He wanders through ideas in economics, philosophy, history, and art interspersed with discussion of game theory in the context of a movie, flagging up issues in rational choice theory in a truly inter-disciplinary manner.

M3 - Article

VL - 41

SP - 155

EP - 170

JO - Journal of Mind and Behavior

JF - Journal of Mind and Behavior

SN - 0271-0137

IS - 2

M1 - 23

ER -