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The Ethics of Rational Decision

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  • Kenneth E. Boulding

    (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

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In recent years a great deal of attention has been paid by social scientists and others to the problem of the theory of decisions. The decision is a basic concept of social systems, especially in social dynamics. It represents perhaps the most important single class of events, an event being defined as a kind of step-function which separates one position of a social system from the next in point of time. Some events are not the result of human decision at all, such as aging or accidents; some are the results of previous decisions, such as depreciation of a previously created capital structure; but when all these are removed, there remains an important category of events which constitute a deliberate change in state of a social system as a result of human action. Address presented at the 27th National Meeting of the Operations Research Society of America, Boston, Massachusetts, May 7, 1965.

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  • Kenneth E. Boulding, 1966. "The Ethics of Rational Decision," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 12(6), pages 161-169, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:12:y:1966:i:6:p:b161-b169
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.12.6.B161
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