Sentence examples for irrational fool from inspiring English sources
A professor of game theory, Varoufakis recently boasted to the New York Times that "little Greece, in order to survive, [could] bring down the financial world", and that his media image "as an irrational fool … is doing my work for me" by frightening other EU finance ministers.
While he was self-deprecating about that success, Heinlein was never shy about his conviction that most social problems could be solved by an application of scientifically informed reason -- if only the irrational fools in power could be forced to step aside.
A sensible person like Rowling looks at voters who are repelled by the parade of centrist candidates and sees them as irrational fools.
That's not to say that people are irrational fools, only that human beings have limitations -- or as Herb Simon (winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economics) put it: our rationality is "bounded".
The mainstream objection of recent decades is that it paints a picture of households and banks as irrational and easily fooled.
This meant that stupidity did not just define the dark realm of the irrational; it also became associated with the naïve and innocent -- the holy fool of Dostoyevsky, the schlemiels of folk literature.
The purchase of a security at one price may be an investment at a higher price, speculation at an even higher price, irrational exuberance and today, 1500 points above "rrational exuberance,"it becomes the greater fool theory Everyone is investing in the market.
