Evolutionary Rationality and Development

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Professor of Allameh Tabataba'i University

2 Assistant Professor of of Allameh Tabataba'i University

Abstract

Most differences in socio-economic opinions stem from misunderstanding the concept of “rationality. 
In this paper we present two different interpretation of rationality. We explain that “Evolutionary Rationality” is more conductive to development while “constructivist Rationality” divert attention from a free spontaneous market to socio economic engineering, thereby diverting development from its evolutionary path

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