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Does Optimization Imply Rationality?

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Mongin, P.

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The relation between rationality and optimization have been widely discussed in the wake of Herbert Simon's work, with the common conclusion that the rationality concept does not imply the optimization principle. The paper is partly concerned with adding evidence for this view but its main, more challenging objective is to question the converse implication form optimization to rationality, which is accepted even by bounded rationality theorists.

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Paper provided by Paris X - Nanterre, U.F.R. de Sc. Ec. Gest. Maths Infor. in its series Papers with number 9817.

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Length: 37 pages
Date of creation: 1998
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Handle: RePEc:fth:pnegmi:9817

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Keywords: OPTIMIZATION ; PREFERENCE CHOICES;

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  1. Philippe MONGIN, 2007. "LÕa-priori et lÕa posteriori en Žconomie," Discussion Papers (REL - Recherches Economiques de Louvain) 2007011, Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES). [Downloadable!]
  2. Marc Fleurbaey & Philippe Mongin, 2004. "The News of the Death of Welfare Economics is Greatly Exaggerated," Working Papers hal-00242931_v1, HAL. [Downloadable!]
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  3. Antoine Billot, 2007. "Social consistency and individual rationality," PSE Working Papers 2007-14, PSE (Ecole normale supérieure). [Downloadable!]
  4. Frédéric Laville, 2000. "Should we abandon optimization theory? The need for bounded rationality," Journal of Economic Methodology, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 7(3), pages 395-426, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  5. MONGIN, Philippe, 2006. "L'a priori et l'a posteriori en Economie," Les Cahiers de Recherche 849, HEC Paris. [Downloadable!]
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  6. Paola Manzini & Marco Mariotti, 2003. "How vague can one be? Rational preferences without completeness or transitivity," Game Theory and Information 0312006, EconWPA, revised 16 Jul 2004. [Downloadable!]
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