There's no record of Edmund Burke -- the great Irish-born British statesman and father of modern conservatism -- actually ...

Further, a person’s willingness to take on risk, or conversely, their aversion to risk, may be considered rational depending on their goals and circumstances. For example, an investor may choose ...

Andreas Bechtolsheim, the first investor in Google, has an estimated $16 billion fortune. He recently settled charges that he ...

An example of a rational consumer would be a person choosing between two cars. Car B is cheaper than Car A, so the consumer purchases Car B. While rational choice theory is logical and easy to ...

Pungent in theory, ruinous in practice. What more proof could a rational person need? The billionaires have bought a lot of brains: Many people in Silicon Valley and around the world now call ...

A rational person would see that siding with these murderous theocrats isn’t “progressive” in any sense of the word. It’s suicidal. Meanwhile, NPR responded to veteran editor Uri Berliner ...

Daniel Murphy says he would have gotten stuck ‘behind silage traffic’ when taking route to Kells suggested by State ...

Are you at risk for in-flight meltdown — one armrest war away from going viral? No?

My initial response was that the recording of this message was intentional, malicious, and from a rational person so I needed to take the required measures to protect myself. But then the nurse in ...

"I did what any rational person would do and say, 'That's not true,'' he said with a laugh. "Because no one can own a space shuttle. How is that a thing?" Apparently, it is a thing. And now ...

Thus, economists would conclude that the rational and just decision is to drop the theatre in favour of the cinema. This seems logical. But a closer look exposes the callousness of the whole approach.