The past decade has witnessed a growing controversy over the status of formal approaches in political science, and especially the growing prominence of formal rational choice theory. Rational choice models have been an accepted part of the academic study of politics since the 1950s, but their popularity has grown signiacantly in recent years.1 Elite academic departments are now expected to incl...

What can time-travel cases tell us about rational choice? In particular, what can we learn about rational choice from what we may call retroactive choice situations, that is, from time-travel cases in which the circumstances where an agent makes a choice depend causally on the choice the agent makes? Such cases have been thought to call into question the dominant theory of rational choice among...

Revealed preference is one of the most influential ideas in economics. It is, however, not clear how it can be generally applied cases where agents’ choices depend on arbitrary changes decision environment. In this paper, we propose a generalization classic rational choice theory that allows for such framing effects. Frames are modeled as different presentations (e.g., visual or conceptual) alt...