Background
Hardin, Russell was born on December 11, 1940 in Bristol, Tennessee, United States. Son of Guy Curtis and Willie Lucille (Graham) Hardin.
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Morality Within the Limits of Reason
( This provocative, lucidly written reconstruction of uti...)
This provocative, lucidly written reconstruction of utilitarianism focuses on the practical constraints involved in ethical choice: information may be inadequate, and understanding of causes and effects may be limited. Good decision making may be especially constrained if other people are closely involved in determining an outcome. Hardin demonstrates that many of these structural issues can and should be distinguished from the thornier problems of utilitarian value theory, and he is able to show what kinds of moral conclusions we can reach within the limits of reason.
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Collective Action (Rff Press)
(Public choice, an important subdiscipline in the field of...)
Public choice, an important subdiscipline in the field of political theory, seeks to understand how people and societies make decisions affecting their collective lives. Relying heavily on theoretical models of decision making, public choice postulates that people act in their individual interests in making collective decisions. As it happens, however, reality does not mirror theory, and people often act contrary to what the principal public choice models suggest. In this book, Russell Hardin looks beyond the models to find out why people choose to act together in situations that the models find quite hopeless. He uses three constructs of modern political economy--public goods, the Prisoner's Dilemma, and game theory--to test public choice theories against real world examples of collective action. These include movements important in American society in the past few decades--civil rights, the Vietnam War, women's rights, and environmental concerns. This classic work on public choice will be of interest to theoreticians and graduate students in the fields of public choice, political economy, or political theory--and to those in other disciplines who are concerned with the problem of collective action in social contexts.
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Rational Man and Irrational Society?: An Introduction and Sourcebook by Brian Barry (1982-04-01)
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Morality within the Limits of Reason by Russell Hardin (1990-05-15)
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Russell Hardin
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Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, University Texas, 1962; Bachelor of Arts, University of Oxford, 1964; Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971.
Career
Assistant professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1972-1976;
associate professor, U. Maryland., College Park, 1976-1979;
visiting associate professor, University of Chicago, 1979-1981;
associate professor, University of Chicago, 1981-1983;
professor, University of Chicago, 1983-1987;
Chairman of Commission on public policy studies, University of Chicago, 1983-1987;
Mellon Foundation professor political science, philosophy public policy studies, University of Chicago, 1987-1992;
professor political science, philosophy, University of Chicago, 1992-1993;
professor, chair department politics, New York University, since 1993. Trustee Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, New York City, 1984-1990, 92-. Director Bulletin Atomic Scientists, Chicago, 1984-1993.
Jack Pritzker Distinguished visiting professor Northwestern University School Law, 1991. Visiting scholar Russell Sage Foundation, New York City, 1992-1993.
Achievements
Works
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Morality Within the Limits of Reason
( This provocative, lucidly written reconstruction of uti...)
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Collective Action (Rff Press)
(Public choice, an important subdiscipline in the field of...)
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Rational Man and Irrational Society?: An Introduction and Sourcebook
(The Prisoner's Dilemma and Kenneth Arrow's General Possib...)
- Rational Man and Irrational Society?: An Introduction and Sourcebook by Brian Barry (1982-04-01)
- Morality within the Limits of Reason by Russell Hardin (1990-05-15)
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Morality Within the Limits of Reason
Membership
Member City of Chicago Board Ethics, 1988-1991. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Philosophical Association, American Political Science Association, American Economics Association, Public Choice Society.
Connections
Married Joan Rothchild, May 18, 1972. 1 child, Joshua.
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American
Awards
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Rhodes scholar University of Oxford, 1962-1964, postdoctoral fellow Columbia University, 1971-1972, National fellow Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1975-1976, Earhart fellow Earhart Foundation, 1983.Rhodes scholar University of Oxford, 1962-1964, postdoctoral fellow Columbia University, 1971-1972, National fellow Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1975-1976, Earhart fellow Earhart Foundation, 1983.