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Is it rational always to act in our own interests, or to act in accordance with our present desires, or to bring about the best consequences for everyone, timelessly?
The outcome may seem a disaster, but it is also the most rational choice – the “Nash equilibrium” of the traveler’s dilemma game.
It will also depend on institutions’ ability to design rational health care, monitor delivery, and properly assess new treatments.
It certainly sounds rational, especially compared to a more diplomatic approach of lifting some economic sanctions in exchange for, say, cooperation in Syria.
It is precisely because Western countries have now been swept up in this movement that it is so critical for rational leaders to stand up and advocate coherent strategies for containing Russia.
To be rational means more than being able to deploy your means efficiently in order to achieve your ends.
But humans are unique, Kant insists, because, unlike cats and dogs, we can pass rational judgment on our desires.
But if the mark of a rational person is a capacity to act on reasons transcending cost-benefit analysis, how can our rational duty be deduced impartially, free of the influence of personal interests or prejudices?
So it is our rational duty to tell the truth, regardless of the benefits lying might bring in practice.
Strategic reductions in price to undercut a competitor pass the test of rational duty (as long as prices do not fall below costs).
But strategic reductions of wages to ever lower levels (the Uberization of society) cannot be rational, because the result would be a catastrophic collapse, owing to disappearing aggregate demand.
The trick, and our rational duty, is to embrace policies and to build institutions that are consistent with balanced trade and financial flows.
A critic of this German idea for reforming Europe might credibly ask why anyone should do their rational duty, rather than remain on the time-honored path of narrow self-interest?
The only sound answer is: because there is no truly rational alternative.
During the Cold War, US President Dwight Eisenhower reasoned that even if Stalin (and later Mao) was homicidal, he was also rational, and did not wish to perish in a US counter-strike.
That is a perfectly rational and sensible prize for Kim to pursue.
Unfortunately, the Troika was not interested in a rational solution.
Dying to save your home, family, or country may be rational.
They cannot be, because religious authority demands obedience to divine power, which by definition is not open to rational challenge.
This idea is completely at odds with how rational individuals behave.
Of course, some market participants might not be rational, demanding a higher risk premium following a short-term deterioration of the debt ratio.
But no one should think that debate in democracies is always based on reason, or that democracy necessarily makes people more rational.
This is what appeared to happen in the last Indian election, and the election in the United States of President Barack Obama was also plainly a supremely rational moment.
Yet today most economists model unemployment as “voluntary” – a rational preference for leisure rather than work.
Better gender statistics could provide a more detailed understanding of women’s access to justice, education, and finance; improved measures of poverty and inequality could reveal how the benefits of economic growth are distributed; and natural capital accounting could uncover the value of resource endowments, thereby helping to ensure that they are used in a rational and sustainable manner.
Although this stance is technically wrong, it is strategically rational, given the West’s wariness regarding Iran’s true intentions.
The idea that it is rational for a company to incur enormous losses by selling below cost in order to achieve or maintain a monopoly position has been roundly criticized by economists who argue that situations in which such losses can be recouped by subsequent monopoly profits are extremely rare.
International politics may be founded on treaties, but it functions on the basis of rational expectations.
When one has a heart-to-heart talk with many seemingly rational people, they turn out to have crazy theories.
The idea of financial singularity may seem inspiring; but it is no less illusory than the rational Utopia that inspired generations of central planners.
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