The truth is that neither human beings nor modern societies are wired to respond rationally to terrorism.

Iraq is surely an aggressor state; but it can also respond rationally to diplomatic incentives.

Workers are responding rationally and entirely voluntarily to external events.

Hence market prices (at least initially) were responding rationally to a rise in demand.

A political system that responded rationally to the country's problems would be concentrating on creating jobs.

Indeed, these problems exist precisely because people are responding rationally to existing incentives.

Young women in school and young men at work are both responding rationally to the scarce job prospects.

And the idea that people respond rationally to incentives is also still central.

She was too wildly concerned about the wounded man to respond rationally.