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Michael C. Munger, « Christopher Kam and Adlai Newson, The Economic Origins of Political Parties », Œconomia, ID : 10.4000/oeconomia.13996
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One of my grad school professors, Kenneth Shepsle, was always miffed at the way that Public Choice scholars would hijack the notion of rationality, and call it “economics”. He would stand in his office doorway, smoking his pipe (yes, this was a long time ago), and loudly announce, “You know, you economists have no authorized monopoly on the idea that rational agents optimize! In fact, optimization in political science is older than your sad little discipline in the first place!” Shepsle’s cla...