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Given the agent-centered critique, it is no surprise that Soros favors a “skin in the game” approach — and he says that the 5% retention by originators in securitizations is toosmall:

The Volokh Conspiracy » Soros on Principles of Financial Regulation and Efficient Market Hypothesis: 2009

And this conclusion brings us back to the centrality of agent-centered explanations of historical outcomes.

Archive 2009-08-01 Daniel Little 2009

First, rational-choice theory has a major theoretical advantage precisely because it is an agent-centered framework.

Archive 2009-01-01 Daniel Little 2009

It is a materialist theory; it is an agent-centered theory; and it is a theory that invites serious investigation of the processes through which the social psychology of a group are formed.

Marx's theory of political behavior Daniel Little 2009

And this conclusion brings us back to the centrality of agent-centered explanations of historical outcomes.

Revisiting Popper Daniel Little 2009

One of the reasons that rational choice theory RC is appealing is that it is an agent-centered approach to social explanation: explain the social outcome on the basis of an analysis of the beliefs, intentions, and circumstances of the individual agents who make up the social setting.

Social agency and rational choice Daniel Little 2009

One of the reasons that rational choice theory RC is appealing is that it is an agent-centered approach to social explanation: explain the social outcome on the basis of an analysis of the beliefs, intentions, and circumstances of the individual agents who make up the social setting.

Archive 2009-01-01 Daniel Little 2009

First, rational-choice theory has a major theoretical advantage precisely because it is an agent-centered framework.

Social agency and rational choice Daniel Little 2009

It is a materialist theory; it is an agent-centered theory; and it is a theory that invites serious investigation of the processes through which the social psychology of a group are formed.

Archive 2009-06-01 Daniel Little 2009

And it is sometimes maintained that this approach is inconsistent with an agent-centered approach to social processes.

Is network analysis inconsistent with agent-centered explanation? Daniel Little 2008