Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection by Michael Taylor - 9780521687041

Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection\n\nA provocative polemic against the philosophical psychology that underpins Rational Choice theories.\n\nMichael Taylor (Author)\n\n9780521687041, Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 24 July 2006\n\n238 pages\n23.5 x 15.7 x 1.5 cm, 0.347 kg\n\n\""This is an excellent and enjoyable book...As a critique of welfarism, market idealism, and (especially) psychological egoism, Taylor's Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection is valuable and rewarding. I strongly recommend it on these terms.\""\n-Frank Lovett, The Review of Politics\n\nA powerful and provocative critique of the foundations of Rational Choice theory and the economic way of thinking about the world, written by a former leading practitioner. The target is a dehumanizing ideology that cannot properly recognize that normal people have attachments and commitments to other people and to practices, projects, principles, and places, which provide them with ]