้However, the maximization postulate is less consonant with an empirical theory than it sounds. In the first place, it seems entirely too dependent on traditional economic reasoning: there are simply too many instances in which imperium economia however convenient and enticing does not prevail, as Amitai Etzioni, Robert Bellah, and the communitarians are quick to pint out. Second, the maximization ostulate is too prone to understandable ambiguity, depending, as it does, on "the actor's own perception".Nor does Yehezkel Dror's (1971) advocacy of metatheory seem particularly persuasive, even after twenty-five years.