Rationality theorem

Rationality theorem This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Rationality theorem" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) The rationality theorem is a theory introduced by political scientist Graham Allison in his book Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Allison defined the rationality theorem like this: There exists no pattern of activity for which an imaginative analyst cannot write a large number of objective functions such that the pattern of activity maximizes each function.

He used the theorem to attack any social science analysis that assumes a measure of rationality on the part of the actors.

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