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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2010
      July 2006
      ISBN:
      9780511618017
      9780521867450
      9780521687041
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511618017
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.468kg, 238 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.347kg, 238 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Economics, Political Theory, Politics: General Interest, Economic Thought, Philosophy and Methodology, Politics and International Relations
      Series:
      Contemporary Political Theory
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    Subjects:
    Economics, Political Theory, Politics: General Interest, Economic Thought, Philosophy and Methodology, Politics and International Relations
    Series:
    Contemporary Political Theory
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    A powerful and provocative critique of the foundations of Rational Choice theory and the economic way of thinking about the world, written by a former leading practitioner. The target is a dehumanizing ideology that cannot properly recognize that normal people have attachments and commitments to other people and to practices, projects, principles, and places, which provide them with desire-independent reasons for action, and that they are reflective creatures who think about what they are and what they should be, with ideals that can shape and structure the way they see their choices. The author's views are brought to bear on the economic way of thinking about the natural environment and on how and when the norm of fair reciprocity motivates us to do our part in cooperative endeavors. Throughout, the argument is adorned by thought-provoking examples that keep what is at stake clearly before the reader's mind.

    Reviews

    "This passionate book is a powerful conceptual, empirical, and normative critique of Rational Choice theory by a former practitioner."
    -David A. Welch, University of Toronto, Ethics and International Affairs

    "This is an excellent and enjoyable book...As a critique of welfarism, market idealism, and (especially) psychological egoism, Taylor's Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection is valuable and rewarding. I strongly recommend it on these terms."
    -Frank Lovett, The Review of Politics

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