Sundays with Stendhal 11: On Rational Choice

… economics and Hume are the fashion. (The Red and the Black, volume 2, chapter 53, “The Clergy, Their Forests, Liberty.”)  Special edition for … Eric Posner, Adrian Vermeule, Andrew Guzman, Jack Goldsmith, and Kal Raustiala!  (Utilitarianism has a long cultural, indeed literary, history.)