“…One may then switch the aim of social science from, on the one hand, explaining how the rational action of individuals leads in sum to social consequences to, on the other hand, the aim of explaining how institutions lead to specific kinds of results. (Wettersten, 1993, 1995, 1996, 2006a, 2006b, 2007, 2009, 2010a, 2010b, 2011, 2012a, 2012b, 2012c, 2013, 2014) On this alternative theory of rational action, the individualist assumption that only individuals act and that individuals are free to choose their actions is maintained. But their rationality is seen to be dependent on institutions.…”