[lbo-talk] Larry Summers on the academic hiearchy

[Jim Devine]

by the way, why does "rational" choice theory have to (1) assume that
people are totally individualistic and (2) assume that "tastes" --
including the degree of individualism -- are "exogenously given" (by
some act of God or Genes)? For an alternative view, see
http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine/hlr/HLR.pdf .

On 2/17/06, Michael Hoover <hooverm at scc-fl.edu> wrote:
> >>> andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com 02/17/06 5:09 PM >>>
> These aren't the same thing.
> Virtually every
> person I have named here is worth reading and has
> things to offer the left.
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> aware that rat choice, public choice, social choice are separate
> schools of thought, have read folks you mention (i suggested
> that there were exceptions to my general point), will hold on to
> view that individualist/egoistic assumptions make for built-in
> conservative (conservative in way terms is used in contemporary
> politics) value-bias no matter proponents' claims to neutrality...   mh
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