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Rules and Choice in Economics

Essays in Constitutional Political Economy

Rules and Choice in Economics
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Why do the conventions that enable society to cohere survive, even when it is not in everyone's interests to obey them? The book is about how the rules and institutions which are the basis of cooperation in society can be systematically explained. The social sciences which have concerned themselves with this question have frequently come up with opposite explanations, neither of which seem adequate. Economics, with its emphasis on individual choice seems unable to account for individuals following rules when it is not in their interest to do so. Sociology which can explain such rule following behaviour, struggles to account for purposeful individual action. In the place of such a stark opposition, Viktor J. Vanberg offers an analysis which cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries between such fields as economics, law, moral philosophy, sociology and political science.
Routledge; December 1994
319 pages; ISBN 9780203422588
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9781134867974
9781134867967
9780415068734
9780203422588
0203422589