Amadae, S. M. (Author)
University of Chicago Press
Physical Details: xii + 401 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English
Description “Shows how rational choice theory grew out of the RAND Corporation's efforts to develop a `science' of military and policy decisionmaking, [and how it was used to defend] American democracy from its Marxist critics.” (from the publisher)
Essay Review Cohen-Cole, Jamie (2008) Cybernetics and the Machinery of Rationality. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 109-114).
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