You know, what if people are rational?

Terrorists, they're rational.

Let's all get sensible and get this organized.

Pretty much everybody is rational.

Let's forget the whole thing and be reasonable.

They're not rational about probability.

I think there are only two exceptions that I'm aware of two year olds, they are not rational, they have very fickle preferences, they switch what they think all the time, and schizophrenics are probably not rational, but pretty much everybody else is rational.

I'm sure that the French will give my book a cool reception because of their prudishness.

Look, let's be sensible about this thing. There's money in this for all of us.

Meaning, in fact, that farmers are rational and profit minded just like everybody else.

The explanation of human behavior that we inherited in the 20th century was that we are all rational, self maximizing actors, and in that explanation the daycare center had no contract should have been operating without any constraints.

I think there are only two exceptions that I'm aware of two year olds, they are not rational, they have very fickle preferences, they switch what they think all the time, and schizophrenics are probably not rational, but pretty much everybody else is rational.

Asset price swings arise not because market participants are irrational, but because they are attempting to cope with their ever imperfect knowledge of the future stream of profits from alternative investment projects.

Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive research findings to show how we're not as rational as we think when we make decisions.

The explanation of human behavior that we inherited in the 20th century was that we are all rational, self maximizing actors, and in that explanation the daycare center had no contract should have been operating without any constraints.