Volume 1 | Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

Volume 1

Date:

10.15.2009

Rational Choice Theory and the Humanities

Introduction
David Palumbo-Liu
Economists and Glory
Kenneth Arrow
Rationality, Intelligibility, and Interpretation
Peter Stone
Interpretation and Rational Choice
Jon Elster
Rational Choice and the Humanities: Excerpts and Folktales
Michael Suk-Young Chwe
Rational Choice in Love
John Bender
Literary Alternatives to Rational Choice: Historical Psychology and Semi-detached Marriages
Regenia Gagnier
Rationality and Humanity: A View from Feminist Economics
Julie A. Nelson
Rational Preference and Evaluation
Daniel Hausman
Rational Choice Theory and Genomics
John Dupré
Thinking Destruction: Creativity, Rational Choice, Emergence, and Destruction Theory
Alan Liu
The Precautionary Principle and Enlightened Doomsaying: Rational Choice before the Apocalypse
Jean-Pierre Dupuy
Comments on Rational Choice and the Humanities
Sylvia Yanagisako
Comments on Dupré, Dupuy, and Bender
David Kreps
Speaking for the Humanities
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak