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Sensible Decisions: Issues of Rational Decision in Personal Choice and Public Policy
Nicholas Rescher
Concerned with the procedural constraints that rationality imposes on our choices within the historical conditions of reality in which we operate, this book illuminates the theoretical complications that characterize rational procedure in matters of decision making at the public policy level.
160 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 24, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9780742514904 |
| Publishers | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Pages | 160 |
| Dimensions | 149 × 235 × 18 mm · 340 g |
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