There is an unnerving similarity between many economists naive premise of a perfectly rational market and the dialectical materialism of scientific socialism.

Semi Rational Exuberance

And if economic actors are always rational, then no bubbles irrational market responses are allowed.

But then the being sensible stopped.

The apparent payoff was that we could now explain why politicians did so many things that violated economic rationality.

He's created poetry out of the rational, out of the ideal.

Yeah. Some selfishness is a good sign of sanity.

Communicative rationality, or communicative reason, is a theory or set of theories which describes human rationality as a necessary outcome of successful communication.

The first is what I like to call a hyper rational process.

They do expect us to forge reasonable compromise where we can.

That's how you get rationality.

A lot of people are worried about what is rationality about?

like rationality. You're supposed to be rational in an argument.

It's the only response that makes sense, it's the only sane response, the only human one.

European unemployment had just taken another large upward leap, and the socialist countries were so incompatible with rational economic development that their political systems would collapse within two years.

Most specifically, irrationality means that rational systems are unreasonable systems.

Fear was the only sane response, the only human response.

If I had any sense, I'd be in New York by this time.

But there is a solid foundation of rationality on which to build in keeping the door open for negotiations.

I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men, he said.

Individually rational choices were giving rise to collectively irrational results.

The Masculine conducts the work of generating new thoughts, concepts, and ideas, including the work of the imagination.

In addition, both Kennedy and Khrushchev feared that rational strategies and careful calculation might spin out of control.

To be sure, the purely rational theory remains useful for many things.

This should bring better mutual understanding and a more rational and accountable foreign policy.

But will cool rationality be enough to create a European security pillar within the context of the Alliance?

Sanity depends on the acquisition of information and applying that information to the well being of all people and protecting the environment.

It sounds like his intentions were really to get to this purity and not this overly intellectual or I guess he was trying to raise people up but why did he chose this medium?

I have questions with the values of Newtonian science, like rationality. You're supposed to be rational in an argument.

But, as plausible as this line of reasoning may sound, the historical evidence repeatedly refutes it.

Post modernism moves away from the rational culture of the so called modern era.

But those ways of being rational are not independent of one another, so it's rational for a drug injector to share needles because of a stupid decision that's made by a politician, and it's rational for a politician to make that stupid decision because they're responding to what they think the voters want.

The benefits of tax evasion may far outweigh the risk of getting caught, but imagine if everyone decided to evade taxes at the same time.

America s overstretched military provides the irrefutable rationale for a deep restructuring of Asia Pacific security.

So a human encountering the divine, as Muslims believe Muhammad did, to the rationalist, this is a matter not of fact but of wishful fiction, and like all of us, I like to think of myself as rational.

But reason does not seem to be getting much of a hearing during the current health care debate in the US.

So we said, If people are not sensitive to the economic rational theory explanations, to these forces, what could be going on?

Well rationality is constructed by what Christie Hefner was talking about today, that mind body split, you know?

There's also a contradiction in rationality in this country though, which is, as much as we revere the head, we are very anti intellectual.

The crisis has, indeed, provided ample evidence that investors are far from rational but the flaws in the rational expectations line of reasoning hidden assumptions such as that all investors have the same information had been exposed well before the crisis.

But, while Cameron should know from grim experience what is looming, it seems that he has abandoned rational considerations.

That way, economically irrational lock in effects, whereby workers simply cannot afford to change jobs, are avoided.

So these first reformers sought to engage with the ideas that they saw emerging from Europe rationality, tolerance and ethically determined behavior.

Unfortunately, however, hyper rationality does not always produce attractive outcomes when social , rather than individual , choices are concerned. Indeed, sometimes it leads to results that are inefficient, nasty, or both.

Behavioral economics, for example, emphasizes that market participants often act in ways that cannot easily be reconciled with rationality.