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Rational Fools (Sen)

in Stuff I Keep Rereading by Malik Torres

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Rational Fools (Sen) on “Stuff I Keep Rereading”, a list by Malik Torres on TheLysts.

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Name
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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.

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