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Between mathematical formalism, normative choice rules, and the behavioral sciences: The emergence of rational choice theories in the late 1940s and early 1950s

Herfeld, Catherine - 2017

This paper discusses why mathematical economists of the early Cold War period favored formal-axiomatic over behavioral choice theories. One reason was that formal-axiomatic theories allowed mathematical economists to improve the conceptual and theoretical foundations of economics and thereby to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761430

From theories of human behavior to rules of rational choice: Tracing a normative turn at the cowles commission, 1943-1954

Herfeld, Catherine - 2017

This article traces a normative turn between the middle of the 1940s and the early 1950s reflected in the reformulation …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761431

Between mathematical formalism, normative choice rules, and the behavioral sciences : the emergence of rational choice theories in the late 1940s and early 1950s

Herfeld, Catherine - 2017

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011759791

From theories of human behavior to rules of rational choice : tracing a normative turn at the cowles commission, 1943-1954

Herfeld, Catherine - 2017

This article traces a normative turn between the middle of the 1940s and the early 1950s reflected in the reformulation …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011759965