Karl Polanyi and the Social Embeddedness of Economic Life: a Critique of the rationality assumption in economics
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Woods, DavidAdvisors
Marshall, PaulAffiliation
Institute for Christian StudiesIssue Date
1987-08
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Economic rationality refers to the efficient use of resources so as to satisfy human ends as fully as possible. Rationality, taken in this sense, has been a consistent and important theme in the history of economic thought. Only in this century however has rationality been explicitly formulated as a basic assumption of individual behaviour in economic theory. [Partial abstract taken from thesis]Publisher
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