The Limits of Public Choice : A Sociological Critique of the Economic Theory of Politics
Public choice has been one of the most important developments in the social sciences in the last twenty years. However there are many people who are frustrated by the uncritical importing of ideas from economics into political science. Public Choice uses both empirical evidence and theoretical analysis to argue that the economic theory of politics is limited in scope and fertility. In order to arrive at a more comprehensive understanding of political life, political scientists must learn from both economists and sociologists.
In the present work, Von Mises criterion and its distortional energy density interpretation proposed for plastic mechanics is employed to study the effect of temperature on plastic yielding behavior of metal