Rational
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Much of modern economic and financial theory is based on the assumption that people are
rational
, and thus that they systematically maximize their own happiness, or as economists call it, their “utility.”
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It's helping to bring an incredible group of talented people together to really try to solve and penetrate these problems that have created our obstacles to management and
rational
use of this area that was once so far away and remote.
And he says, you know, "Philosophers love
rational
argument."
WK: And people actually, after the collapse of the Hosni Mubarak regime, the youth who have organized themselves in certain groups and councils, they are guarding the transformation and they are trying to put it on a track in order to satisfy the values of democracy, but at the same time also to make it reasonable and to make it rational, not to go out of order.
We had a financial regulatory regime based on the assumptions that traders were
rational
creatures who wouldn't do anything stupid.
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