Rational Fools (Sen)

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Field

Welfare economics / philosophy

Core idea

Critiques the idea that people are just self-interested utility maximizers and brings in commitment and ethics.

Year

1977

How dense

Medium – more words than equations, but conceptually loaded.

My take

Reads like that one friend who keeps asking annoying but necessary questions in class. Makes standard homo economicus feel very… NPC.