"Not everyone can be an activist"

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Fri Feb 21 06:11:01 PST 2003



> > But aren't you sort of throwing away the social connection
>> part, as above,
>> when you focus on "minimizing costs"? Sure, there are costs
>> in all that we
>> do, but when it comes to social connections, I'm not so
>> convinced that
>> "costs" are the first considerations that come to mind. Of
>> course, both
>> models are inadequate, but it may be more appropriate to view social
>> connections as something that affects "utility" (well-being,
> > happiness)...for modelling purposes that is.
>
>I am not throwing away social connections. I simply argue that
>social connections minimize transaction costs. See:
>
>Mark Granovetter, 1985, Economic Action and Social Structure: The
>Problem of Embeddedness, American Journal of Sociology, 91:481-510.
>
>In other words, I do not want to throw away a rat choice model of
>human behavior, as many sociologists and social comentators do - I
>simply want to detsch it from the linear regression thinking and add
>more social/cognitive elements to it.
>
>Wojek

Isn't it "rational" -- if you have to put it that way -- to choose happiness, e.g., the pleasure of hanging out and doing something meaningful with friends -- unless you are a Schopenhauerian. :-> -- Yoshie

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