In reversing that decision, Justice Scalia said the change in policy was rational and therefore permissible.
Such a war is not a possible policy for rational men".
But he knows he cannot hide entirely, which is why some people, he says, follow a policy of "rational ignorance".
Had monetary policy been rational and bank oversight sound (the latter perhaps an oxymoron), the Fed would never have had to reduce the funds rate to its present level.
The policy of rational use of antibiotics may have limited its utilization.
A silver lining, perhaps, is that increased light has been shone on the importance of evidence-based public health policy, with rational decisions replacing those based on fear.
In India, state governments have adopted central government guidelines on policies and programmes for healthcare development, and the state of Orissa adopted a policy on rational drug use in 1997 [ 10].
But the evidence suggests that Moscow is not opposing these policies for rational reasons to which others might subscribe.
If our economic policies were rational, let alone caring, they would be designed to help the long-term jobless overcome this stigma and return to work.
The advantage of this kind of cost-benefit analysis, its proponents declare, is that it promises to make our public policies more rational.
