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What do we mean by rationality?

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    Douglass C. North

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I am indebted to Elisabeth Case for editing this essay.

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North, D.C. What do we mean by rationality?. Public Choice 77, 159–162 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01049229

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