K&R if you like Obama!

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41. Liking Obama as a man, husband, and father

are all non-rationalized sources of power.

In all societies, the ways people gain access to and use material resources is governed by rules that are objective embodied in the institutional settings within which they live.
When rules allocate resources to people on the basis of ascriptive characteristics, and when use of those material resources is given by tradition rather than the result of a calculative weighing of the alternatives, then economic interactions take place under non-rationalized conditions.

When rules enable people to make precise calculations about alternative uses of those resources, and when they discipline people to use those resources in more rather than less efficient ways on the basis of those calculations, then those rules can be described as “rationalized.” This occurs when market relations have the most pervasive influence on economic interactions, i.e fully-developed capitalism.