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HES: RE: DISC: Economics as a Theory of Choice
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[log in to unmask] (Yuri Tulupenko)
Date:
Fri Mar 31 17:18:49 2006
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We economists tend to understand choice as "rational choice", but consider the following
definition by S.T.Coleridge: "...empirical phenomenon of the will, CHOICE". Now, St.
Augustine considered the will to be superior to reason (and thus free). Augustinian
economics (or anti-economics?) would have been a theory of choice, too, but how different
from the rational-choice theory!
  
Yuri Tulupenko  
 

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