ABSTRACT
Among the more noteworthy developments in recent social science is the upsurge of a theory and/or methodology called ‘rational choice’. This would not be my business, however, were it not for the fact that rational choice is launched as a form of methodological individualism. Sometimes it is even treated as the only form of methodological individualism (Janssen, 1993: 26). This view, which is most common among economists (Sproule-Jones, 1984: 169), is not adopted in this book. As I hope is evident from previous chapters of this book, there are other forms of methodological individualism than rational choice (Van Parijs, 1981: 302-4; Elster, 1989a: 105: Vanberg, 1994: 7).
