The success of the balance of terror presupposed a mixture of confrontation and dialogue between two rational actors. Can Iran under Ahmadinejad be considered a rational actor?

BJ From an actor.

Who is your favourite actor?

Terrorists, they're rational.

Markets Rational Complacency

Maintain rational thought.

That was one idea that we would have different actors, and we would hand off from actor to actor.

That's one actor, the Security Council.

Nobody knew it was an actor.

I've never heard of the actor.

I've never heard of this actor.

Now who is rational?

His argument is rational.

Dynamic models have become much more common, an economics of the second best has flourished, political economy has become mainstream, and behavioral economics has thrown the rational actor into doubt. As a result, Hirschman looks less and less the maverick that he fancied himself to be.

The first actor is the Security Council.

I have never heard of this actor.

They're not rational about probability.

I don't think that's rational.

Mother Theresa, she was rational.

Pretty much everybody is rational.

The Year of Rational Pessimism

And here you can see the body actor.

I'm an actor who plays a specific part.

He was an actor. You saw him act.

To tell the truth, that actor is married.

He is not a singer, but an actor.

We're social animals, not rational animals.

And when I was 12, I became an actor.

What's rational for public health is also rational for individual sex workers because it's really bad for business to have another STI.

Multiply and express as a simplified rational.

You know, what if people are rational?

We've got what's rational for public health.

Are we any more rational about sex?

In theory, we're thinking, rational human beings.

One is a Silver Bear Best Actor, the other, an up and coming young actor Guilty of Mind is the first partnership between Liao Fan and Li Yifeng.

The second actor, different cast of guys, is the donors.

Some of that's good Oxfam, a great non governmental actor.

Some of it's bad Al Qaeda, another non governmental actor.

He is an actor playing the part of a magician.

And I felt I was being typecast as an actor.

Do you want to be an actor in a movie?

So she was making a politically rational decision.

Actually, I once paid like 60 dollars to see a very great actor to do a version of King Lear, and I felt really robbed, because by the time the actor started being King Lear, he stopped being the great actor that I had paid money to see.

And then the third key actor is the post conflict government.

My dream is to make it as an actor in Hollywood.