Table of Contents:
- Economists' "irrational passion for dispassionate rationality" -- The methodological constraints on the rationality premise -- Human motivation and Adam Smith's "invisible hands" -- Rationality in economic thought: from Thomas Robert Malthus to Alfred Marshall and Philip Wicksteed -- Rationality in economic thought: Frank Knight, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and James Buchanan -- Behavioral economists, and Psychologists' challenges to rational behavior -- The evolutionary biology of rational behavior -- The neuroeconomics of rational decision making -- Economic defenses for rational behavior in economics -- Problems with behavioral economics -- Rationality and economic education.