Comments on: Price asymmetry and my bus ticket http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2008/10/06/price-asymmetry-and-my-bus-ticket/ The Visible Hand in Economics Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:40:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Matt Nolan http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2008/10/06/price-asymmetry-and-my-bus-ticket/comment-page-1/#comment-2666 Matt Nolan Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:06:53 +0000 http://tvhe.wordpress.com/?p=1375#comment-2666 "The fallacy that economics has any correlation with rationality needs to die. The notion that rationality is an essential value for guiding human affairs, likewise needs to die (plug for John Ralston Saul here)." I suspect the version of rationality you are implicitly using here is a straw man - the postulate that individuals make choices is all you need to discuss things with "rationality". “The fallacy that economics has any correlation with rationality needs to die. The notion that rationality is an essential value for guiding human affairs, likewise needs to die (plug for John Ralston Saul here).”

I suspect the version of rationality you are implicitly using here is a straw man – the postulate that individuals make choices is all you need to discuss things with “rationality”.

]]> By: don http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2008/10/06/price-asymmetry-and-my-bus-ticket/comment-page-1/#comment-2665 don Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:03:22 +0000 http://tvhe.wordpress.com/?p=1375#comment-2665 The fallacy that economics has any correlation with rationality needs to die. The notion that rationality is an essential value for guiding human affairs, likewise needs to die (plug for John Ralston Saul here). The fallacy that economics has any correlation with rationality needs to die. The notion that rationality is an essential value for guiding human affairs, likewise needs to die (plug for John Ralston Saul here).

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