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A Scholar's Quest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2018

James G. March
James G. March*
Affiliation:
Stanford University, USA
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Modern portrayals of human action are overwhelmingly in a calculative and consequentialist tradition. Consequentialist reasoning is the basis for most of modern social and behavioral science and preeminently for economics. Action is seen as choice, and choice is seen as driven by anticipations, incentives, and desires. These ideas trace their roots at least to the Greeks, owe substantial parts of their modern manifestation to the formulations of Jeremy Bentham, and derive much of their contemporary power from the geniuses of L. J. Savage and John von Neumann.

Type
Dialogue, Debate, and Discussion
Information
Management and Organization Review , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , March 2018 , pp. 225 - 228
Copyright
Copyright © The International Association for Chinese Management Research 2018 

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