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THE CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF RATIONAL CHOICE

Carlo C. Jaeger

Contemporary thinking about social realities, especially about economic institutions, is deeply shaped by a research tradition based on the idea of rational choice. However, it is sometimes claimed that social reality cannot be reduced to the interaction of rational actors because such actors already presuppose a social reality in which they are embedded. If this argument is correct, then it should help to overcome basic weaknesses of economic equilibrium theory. Recent work on rule evolution can be used for this purpose.

International Sociology, Vol. 8, No. 4, 497-503 (1993)
DOI: 10.1177/026858093008004007
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