rational choice

基本解释

If Professors Goldin and Katz have it right; if finance is indeed the “rational choice,” why do you keep raising this issue with me?
如果確實如戈丁和凱玆教授所說，如果到金融行業是“理性的選擇”，你們爲什麽會不斷問我這類問題？
Later we'll consider the objection that the original position is not really social, but is the rational choice of one representative person.
稍後，我們將會考察它的反對意見：初始狀態其實不是社會性的，而是一個代表性個人的理性選擇。
Its invitation to me gave a signal to the sociology profession that the rational choice approach was a respectable theoretical paradigm.
對我的邀請給了社會學專業一個信號，理性選擇方法是一個不錯的理論典範。

So rational choice in this case, people not choosing a dominated strategy; people choosing a dominant rational choice can lead to outcomes that - what do Americans call this?--that "Suck."
理性的選擇,即本案例中人們不去選擇劣勢策略,反而選擇優勢策略,使縂結果變得,美國人怎麽說的,"糟糕"
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