Book of Donmon Teith

The evolution of a set of fields—including operations research and systems analysis—intended to improve policymaking and explore the nature of rational deci

Risk as we now know it is a wholly new phenomenon, the by-product of our ever more complex and powerful technologies. In business, policy making, and in everyda

One of the most promising trends in modem political science is the develop ment of a theory of politics as rational action. Focussing on choice as the central t

This volume is concerned with the concepts of rationality, belief and desire in the explanation and evaluation of human action.

Advocates of rational choice theory in political science have been perceived by their critics as attempting to establish an intellectual hegemony in contemporar