Overview: Ideas linked to rational choice theory started to appearfrequently in the economics literature in the 1960s and 1970s, but theattention given to rationality widened to include commentatorspresenting far-reaching appraisals and critiques. The literature grewto a steady flow and spanned diverse areas of thought includingsocialist and `rational-choice Marxist‘ assessments, and otherapproaches including institutional, sociological, psychological,ethical, choice-theoretical, strategic, and game-theoreticaltreatments of rationality. .This diversity of literature led to the creation of this
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