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Author Amadae, S. M.

Title Rationalizing capitalist democracy : the Cold War origins of rational choice liberalism / S.M. Amadae
Published Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2003

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Description xii, 401 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Managing the national security state : decision technologies and policy science -- Kenneth J. Arrow's Social choice and individual values -- James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock's public choice theory -- William H. Riker's positive political theory -- Rational choice and capitalist democracy -- Adam Smith's system of natural liberty -- Rational mechanics, marginalist economics, and rational choice -- Consolidating rational choice liberalism, 1970-2000
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-379) and index
Subject Rational choice theory.
Liberalism -- United States.
Capitalism -- United States.
LC no. 2003008901
ISBN 0226016544 paperback alkaline paper
0226016536 cloth alkaline paper