For two good, if wildly different, discussions of the huge impact that the rational choice school has had on public administration and political science (but especially the latter), see William C. Mitchell, “Political Science and Public Choice: 1950 - 70,” Public Choice 98 (March 1999), pp. 237 - 249; and Jonathan Cohn, “Revenge of the Nerds: Irrational Exuberance.” The New Republic 221 (October 25, 1999), pp. 25 - 21.31.