_ * From: "Carl Dassbach"
^^^^^^ CB: Doesn''t the following anticipate a lot of economic (micro is it ?) modelling ? rational man (sic), animal spirits, irrational motives the current "behavioral economics" et al "Weber gave us four categories of "Ideal Types" of behavior: zweckrational (rational means to rational ends), wertrational (rational means to irrational ends), affektual (guided by emotion) and traditional (guided by custom or habit). " An interesting problem with Weber is the relationship between the rationalization of the world, which he sees as a master trend in Western society, and the rational pursuit profit. Is rationalization, which Weber equates at times with the rise of science and an empirical, practical and pragmatic orientation to the world, a product of Capitalism and the rational pursuit of profit or is the rational pursuit of profit a consequence of the rationalization of the world. He is ambivalent. I should probably also explain what Weber means by rationalization because it is not what Anglo-Americans generally understand it to be. Rationalization for Weber is the result of rational action and rational action is action, which before commencing, considers ends, means and unintended consequences and proceeds based on these considerations. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
