{"product_id":"how-reason-almost-lost-its-mind-the-strange-career-of-cold-war-rationality-paperback","title":"How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Erickson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. Its home was the human sciences-psychology, sociology, political science, and economics, among others-and its participants enlisted in an intellectual campaign to figure out what rationality should mean and how it could be deployed. \u003ci\u003eHow Reason Almost Lost Its Mind\u003c\/i\u003e brings to life the people-Herbert Simon, Oskar Morgenstern, Herman Kahn, Anatol Rapoport, Thomas Schelling, and many others-and places, including the RAND Corporation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Cowles Commission for Research and Economics, and the Council on Foreign Relations, that played a key role in putting forth a \"Cold War rationality.\" Decision makers harnessed this picture of rationality-optimizing, formal, algorithmic, and mechanical-in their quest to understand phenomena as diverse as economic transactions, biological evolution, political elections, international relations, and military strategy. The authors chronicle and illuminate what it meant to be rational in the age of nuclear brinkmanship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Erickson \u003c\/b\u003eis assistant professor of history and science in society at Wesleyan University and lives in Middletown, CT.\u003cb\u003e Judy L. Klein \u003c\/b\u003eis professor of economics at Mary Baldwin College and lives in Staunton, VA. \u003cb\u003e Lorraine Daston \u003c\/b\u003eis director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She lives in Berlin, Germany.\u003cb\u003e Rebecca Lemov \u003c\/b\u003eis associate professor of the history of science at Harvard University and lives in Cambridge, MA.\u003cb\u003e Thomas Sturm \u003c\/b\u003eis a Ramón y Cajal Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and lives in Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain. \u003cb\u003eMichael D. Gordin \u003c\/b\u003eis professor of the history of science at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, NJ.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 17, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45259784257638,"sku":"9780226324159","price":49.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/R0RWVEQ3Q1RTV1lnOVRNZEhKRDRRdz09.webp?v=1773856227","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/how-reason-almost-lost-its-mind-the-strange-career-of-cold-war-rationality-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}