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Economists find it increasingly attractive to deal with political behaviour and politico-economic interaction. Those active in this relatively new line of research seem to be convinced that their work is fruitful, although they are prepared to concede that there is much work left to do. This confidence seems to stem from the assessment that the same methodological principles, which have been so successfully applied in economic theory proper, can equally well be used in the neighbouring disciplines of political science and sociology (1). By this I refer to methodological individualism, which holds individual actions to be the adequate starting point of analysis and rational choices to explain those actions.
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Glombowski, J. (1988). Critical Notes on the Neoclassical Theory of the Interaction of Politics and Economics. In: Van Den Broeck, J. (eds) Public Choice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7784-7_3
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