Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Drawn largely from Stark and Bainbridge's theory of religion, a modified rational choice model of religious behavior is presented and tested using data from the Institute of Statistical Mathematics in ...

“Rational choice has come quite a way,” a Stanford University professor, Barry Weingast, said. “Thirty years ago, it was far outside the mainstream in political science in almost every respect.” Mr.

Public Choice, Vol. 34, No. 3/4 (1979), pp. 297-315 (19 pages) Since Kramer's article (1971), a growing body of literature indicates that U.S. national elections can be viewed as referenda on the ...