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Ruth Thomas was born in Wellington, Somerset, in 1927. She received a BA Honours Degree in English and a Diploma in Education from Bristol University and went on to teach in a number of primary schools in the East End of London. Ruth began writing soon after she retired in 1985. Her first novel The Runaways won The Guardian Children's Fiction Award. This was followed by four further critically acclaimed novels including The Secret, which was televised by Thames Television. She died in 2011.
With Rules and Choice in Economics, Vanberg establishes himself as one of the foremost individualist social theoriests of his generation. There is much to profit from in this volume, and even more intellectual profits are to be reaped by those who pick up his challenge and explore the interplay between the order of rules and the order of actions. <br>-Journal of Economic Behavior and Organiztion <br> I am sure that the book will have a wide impact. It constitutes one of the most important analytical texts in the revival of modern institutional economics. The careful attention paid to Hayek and to evolutionary themes is especially welcome. <br>-Geoff Hodgson, Cambridge University <br> The book is a welcome contribution to recent efforts to rethink the behavioral foundations of social science. <br>- Contemporary Sociology <br>
