内容简介
ApowerfulandprovocativecritiqueofthefoundationsofRationalChoicetheoryandtheeconomicwayofthinkingabouttheworld,writtenbyaformerleadingpractitioner.Thetargetisadehumanizingideologythatcannotproperlyrecognizethatnormalpeoplehaveattachmentsandcommitmentstootherpeopleandtopractices,projects,principles,andplaces,whichprovidethemwithdesire-independentreasonsforaction,andthattheyarereflectivecreatureswhothinkaboutwhattheyareandwhattheyshouldbe,withidealsthatcanshapeandstructurethewaytheyseetheirchoices.Theauthor'sviewsarebroughttobearontheeconomicwayofthinkingaboutthenaturalenvironmentandonhowandwhenthenormoffairreciprocitymotivatesustodoourpartincooperativeendeavors.Throughout,theargumentisadornedbythought-provokingexamplesthatkeepwhatisatstakeclearlybeforethereader'smind.
作者简介
MichaelTaylorisaprofessorofpoliticalscienceattheUniversityofWashingtoninSeattle.HehaspreviouslytaughtattheUniversityofEssexinEnglandandatYaleUniversity.HewasformanyyearsaleadingpractitionerofRationalChoicetheoryandpublishedtwoinfluentialbooksoncooperationintheabsenceofcentralizedcoercion:AnarchyandCooperation(laterre-titledasThePossibilityofCooperation,1987)andCommunity,Anarchy,andLiberty(1982).HehasalsopublishedarticlesintheJournalofTheoreticalPolitics,PoliticsandSociety,andtheJournalofPoliticalPhilosophy,amongothers.