In 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. How Reason Almost Lost
Its Mind 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 \u201cCold War
rationality.\u201d 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.
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