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Choice Theory

Author : William Glasser, M.D.

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 372 pages

File Size : 40,59 MB

Release : 2010-11-16

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 0062031023

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Dr. William Glasser offers a new psychology that, if practiced, could reverse our widespread inability to get along with one another, an inability that is the source of almost all unhappiness. For progress in human relationships, he explains that we must give up the punishing, relationship–destroying external control psychology. For example, if you are in an unhappy relationship right now, he proposes that one or both of you could be using external control psychology on the other. He goes further. And suggests that misery is always related to a current unsatisfying relationship. Contrary to what you may believe, your troubles are always now, never in the past. No one can change what happened yesterday.



Take Charge of Your Life

Author : William Glasser

Publisher : iUniverse

Page : 252 pages

File Size : 39,5 MB

Release : 2013-03-19

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 1938908333

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A game changer for anyone ready to become the captain of their own ship. Dr. Phil McGraw, host of the nationally syndicated series Dr. Phil Take Charge of Your Life urges readers to stop blaming and start accepting responsibility for choices. Jeannine Chartier Hanscom, ForeWord Reviews Are you seeking a happier and more satisfying life? In Take Charge of Your Life, author Dr. William Glasser explains choice theorya science of human behavior and principles for regaining and maintaining a life you controland how it can help you find personal freedom from relationship-destroying external control. Take Charge of Your Life, a revision of his 1984 book Control Theory, explains choice theory using personalized examples and illustrative stories that allow you to learn how to improve your relationships and take charge of your actions. Topics include marital and relationship problems, parenthood, addictions, pain management, and psychosomatic disorders. For each situation, Dr. Glasser ties behavior to the pictures people create in their minds of what they want. He explains how the pictures got there and how people can choose new behaviors to get what they really want. In Take Charge of Your Life, Glasser offers a real model of empowerment. He shows how you can become a part of the equation that adds happiness and connection to the world in which you live now and to the world of future generations.



Notes On The Theory Of Choice

Author : David Kreps

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 35,5 MB

Release : 2018-05-04

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0429967160

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In this book, Professor Kreps presents a first course on the basic models of choice theory that underlie much of economic theory. This course, taught for several years at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, gives the student an introduction to the axiomatic method of economic analysis, without placing too heavy a demand on mathematical sophistication.The course begins with the basics of choice and revealed preference theory and then discusses numerical representations of ordinal preference. Models with uncertainty come next: First is von Neumann?Morgenstern utility, and then choice under uncertainty with subjective uncertainty, using the formulation of Anscombe and Aumann, and then sketching the development of Savage's classic theory. Finally, the course delves into a number of special topics, including de Finetti's theorem, modeling choice on a part of a larger problem, dynamic choice, and the empirical evidence against the classic models.



Counseling with Choice Theory

Author : William Glasser

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 276 pages

File Size : 21,86 MB

Release : 2001-05-15

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 0060953667

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In Counseling with Choice Theory, Dr. William Glasser takes readers into his consulting room and illustrates, through a series of conversations with his patients, exactly how he puts his popular therapeutic theories into practice. These vivid, almost novelistic case histories bring Dr. Glasser's therapy to life and show readers how to get rid of the controlling, punishing I know what's right for you psychology that crops up in most situations when people face conflict with one another. Practical and readable, Counseling with Choice Theory is Dr. Glasser's most accessible book in years.



Choice Theory: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Michael Allingham

Publisher : OUP Oxford

Page : 144 pages

File Size : 46,35 MB

Release : 2002-08-22

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0191579262

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We make choices all the time - about trivial matters, about how to spend our money, about how to spend our time, about what to do with our lives. And we are also constantly judging the decisions other people make as rational or irrational. But what kind of criteria are we applying when we say that a choice is rational? What guides our own choices, especially in cases where we don't have complete information about the outcomes? What strategies should be applied in making decisions which affect a lot of people, as in the case of government policy? This book explores what it means to be rational in all these contexts. It introduces ideas from economics, philosophy, and other areas, showing how the theory applies to decisions in everyday life, and to particular situations such as gambling and the allocation of resources. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.



Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy

Author : Richard Hanania

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 206 pages

File Size : 26,91 MB

Release : 2021-12-28

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 100051403X

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This book argues that while the US president makes foreign policy decisions based largely on political pressures, it is concentrated interests that shape the incentive structures in which he and other top officials operate. The author identifies three groups most likely to be influential: government contractors, the national security bureaucracy, and foreign governments. This book shows that the public choice perspective is superior to a theory of grand strategy in explaining the most important aspects of American foreign policy, including the war on terror, policy toward China, and the distribution of US forces abroad. Arguing that American leaders are selected to respond to public opinion, not necessarily according to their ability to formulate and execute long-terms plans, the author shows how mass attitudes are easily malleable in the domain of foreign affairs due to ignorance with regard to the topic, the secrecy that surrounds national security issues, the inherent complexity of the issues involved, and most importantly, clear cases of concentrated interests. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of American Studies, Foreign Policy Analysis and Global Governance.



Rational Choice Theory

Author : James S. Coleman

Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated

Page : 264 pages

File Size : 30,77 MB

Release : 1992-08-11

Category : Philosophy

ISBN :

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Rational Choice Theory is one of the few general theories of how individuals, groups, organizations and social structures behave - its impact on sociological theorizing has been enormous. In this volume, advocates and critics present their views of the values and limitations of rational choice theory. Whether supporter or sceptic, sociologists and other social scientists will find themselves immersed in a creative discussion of the merits and difficulties of the model and its applicability to both macro and micro level social issues.



The Choice Theory of Contracts

Author : Hanoch Dagan

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 195 pages

File Size : 17,70 MB

Release : 2017-04-17

Category : Law

ISBN : 1107135982

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Book Description

The Choice Theory of Contracts is an engaging landmark that shows, for the first time, how freedom matters to contract.



Rational Choice Theory and Organizational Theory

Author : Mary Zey

Publisher : SAGE

Page : 156 pages

File Size : 18,55 MB

Release : 1998

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780803951365

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Book Description

Rational Choice Theory and Organizational Theory is written in response to the neo-classical economic rational choice theories and organizational economic theories which have emerged in the past decade and gained center stage in current organizational analysis.



Discrete Choice Theory of Product Differentiation

Author : Simon P. Anderson

Publisher : MIT Press

Page : 454 pages

File Size : 10,41 MB

Release : 1992

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780262011280

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"The discrete choice approach provides an ideal framework for describing the demands for differentiated products and can be used for studying most product differentiation models in the literature. By introducing extra dimensions of product heterogeneity, the framework also provides richer models of firm location and product selection."--BOOK JACKET.