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Much of Shepsle's research has ties to both economics and government, in that it uses economic assumptions and reasoning to study political behavior. This "rational choice" approach to politics allows researchers to create elaborate models of behavior, which rest on certain assumptions that are more commonly linked to economics...
The speaker said legality does not derive from the rational but rather from the moral, adding, "Morality no longer is suspended above law."
Habermas, a professor of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt, is the author of eight books, including "Knowledge and Human Interest," "Towards a Rational Society" and "The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity."
Paul Simon's rock 'n' roll has always been a little different. Raucous, unreconstructed and soul deep, rock is, first of all, about feeling. Or so it is thought to be. But Simon's songs are also about thinking, about the half- rational process of measuring out passion in small...
Enter Derek Bok, who at 41, was dean of the Law School in 1971. Instead of arresting students who seized a room in Langdell Library, Bok discussed academic policies with protesters over donuts and coffee through the night. Low-key, rational, and highly effective.