James C. Roberts is professor of political science at Towson University

• Chapter 1 A Constructivist Approach to Global Public GoodsChapter 2 Accounting for Tastes: The Social Construction of Utility and PreferencesChapter 3 Utility, Preferences, and the Individual Public Goods DecisionChapter 4 Leadership and the Global Monetary SystemChapter 5 Collective Security as a Global Public GoodChapter 6 The Individual Decision to Provide Collective Security: Romania and the Kosovo CampaignChapter 7 Human Rights: Consensus, Norms, and Public BadsChapter 8 Identities, Utilities, and Public Goods Decisions

Constructing Global Public Goods provides a needed addition to a discussion on how rational choice theory can benefit from social constructivist insights. It is easily accessible and likely to benefit students of rational choice, because it does what it promises, namely “that rational choice models become much more robust representations of reality when theorists engage in thick rationality”.

James C. Roberts is professor of political science at Towson University

• Chapter 1 A Constructivist Approach to Global Public GoodsChapter 2 Accounting for Tastes: The Social Construction of Utility and PreferencesChapter 3 Utility, Preferences, and the Individual Public Goods DecisionChapter 4 Leadership and the Global Monetary SystemChapter 5 Collective Security as a Global Public GoodChapter 6 The Individual Decision to Provide Collective Security: Romania and the Kosovo CampaignChapter 7 Human Rights: Consensus, Norms, and Public BadsChapter 8 Identities, Utilities, and Public Goods Decisions

Constructing Global Public Goods provides a needed addition to a discussion on how rational choice theory can benefit from social constructivist insights. It is easily accessible and likely to benefit students of rational choice, because it does what it promises, namely “that rational choice models become much more robust representations of reality when theorists engage in thick rationality”.

James C. Roberts is professor of political science at Towson University

• Chapter 1 A Constructivist Approach to Global Public GoodsChapter 2 Accounting for Tastes: The Social Construction of Utility and PreferencesChapter 3 Utility, Preferences, and the Individual Public Goods DecisionChapter 4 Leadership and the Global Monetary SystemChapter 5 Collective Security as a Global Public GoodChapter 6 The Individual Decision to Provide Collective Security: Romania and the Kosovo CampaignChapter 7 Human Rights: Consensus, Norms, and Public BadsChapter 8 Identities, Utilities, and Public Goods Decisions

Constructing Global Public Goods provides a needed addition to a discussion on how rational choice theory can benefit from social constructivist insights. It is easily accessible and likely to benefit students of rational choice, because it does what it promises, namely “that rational choice models become much more robust representations of reality when theorists engage in thick rationality”.