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Rational choice theory

Duncan K. Foley (2003, p. 1) has also provided an important critic of the concept of rationality and its role in economics.


Congress: The Electoral Connection

Congress: The Electoral Connection is a book by David Mayhew that applies rational choice theory to the actions of American Congressmen.

Dana Evan Kaplan

Kaplan, influenced by Rodney Stark and other sociologists of religion who apply the Rational Choice Theory to the study of American religious denominationalism, argued that the American Reform Movement needed to raise their demands in order to increase the production of “collective religious commodities,” the “religious goods” essential for the continued vitality of the religious group.


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