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C. Smart and B. A. O. Williams, Utilitarianism: For and Against (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1973); H. B. Miller and W. H. Williams, The Limits of Utilitarianism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982); and A. Sen and B. Williams, Utilitarianism and Beyond (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1982). The latter two also contain excellent bibliographies. 10. By far and away the most ambitious axiomatic defense of utilitarianism is to be found in J. Broome, Weighing Goods.
I N T RODUC T ION James Buchanan has long insisted that Homo Economicus is a general model of rational action, applying, for example, to politics as well as economics. He challenges those who would restrict the application of Homo Economicus with the argument from symmetry. Along with Geoffrey Brennan, he writes: The symmetry argument suggests only that whatever model of behavior is used, this model should be applied across all institutions. 1 In this chapter I argue that the economic model of human behavior is inappropriate to important parts of social and political life; I try to demonstrate that it is a special case of a more general account of rational action.
Rawls, Theory of Justice, and R. Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously (London: Duckworth, 1977). chapter 2 T HE LIMITS OF HOMO ECONOMICUS The Conflict of Values and Principles Gerald Gaus . I N T RODUC T ION James Buchanan has long insisted that Homo Economicus is a general model of rational action, applying, for example, to politics as well as economics. He challenges those who would restrict the application of Homo Economicus with the argument from symmetry. Along with Geoffrey Brennan, he writes: The symmetry argument suggests only that whatever model of behavior is used, this model should be applied across all institutions.