So this is hardly a leadership that will make any decision based on economic rationality.

There seems no particular reason to ascribe economic rationality to one group and not the other.

How could the relationship between economic and ecological rationality be inverted or rather corrected?

All things being equal, economic rationality would require that these people make use of their talents elsewhere.

But by far the most powerful link connecting the two approaches was the common assumption of economic rationality.

Another way of saying this is that capital accumulation defines economic rationality in capitalist production.

Another explanation is more consistent with economic and political rationality.

This may lead to consumer behaviour that does not conform to perfect economic rationality.

Fighting against economic rationality is the path of European poverty.

Still, in a world of economic rationality, shouldn't there be a better way?