The capacity to choose: reformulating the concept of choice in economic theory

Despite being conceived as a ‘theory of rational choice’, orthodox economics fails to ascribe to human beings the ability to choose in a meaningful sense, something philosophical approaches to economics have long noted and tried to remedy. Tony Lawson’s critical realism is one attempt at a remedy. I...

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Main Author: Mark S. Peacock
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Rosetti Internaţional 2011-05-01
Series:Journal of Philosophical Economics
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Online Access:http://www.jpe.ro/poze/articole/58.pdf