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FOCUSING ON THE 11 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, THE AUTHOR INVESTIGATES THE IMPACT OF PERSONALITY ON THE POLITICAL BEHAVIOR OF THEM. FOUR PERSONALITY TRAITS ARE EXAMINED: POWER MOTIVATION, ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION, ACTIVITY-PASSIVITY AND NEGATIVISM-POSITIVISM. THE EFFECTS OF THESE PERSONILITY TRAITS ON TWO PRESIDENTIAL BEHAVIORS, ACTIVITY AND SUCCESS WITH THE CONGRESS, ARE INVESTIGATED.

THE AUTHOR COMMENTS ON ADAM PRZEWORSKI'S ARTICLE "COULD WE FEED EVERYONE" THE IRRATIONALITY OF CAPITALISM AND THE INFEASIBILITY OF SOCIALISM." HE CONCENTRATES ON POINTS OF DISAGREEMENT SUCH AS PRZEWORSKI'S CONFINING OF DISCUSSION TO A COMPARISON OF THE WELFARE CONSEQUENCES OF ALTERNATIVE POLITICAL-ECONOMIC CONSTITUTION WHERE "WELFARE" IS UNDERSTOOD SUBJECTIVELY AS THE SATISFACTION OF DE FACTO PREFERENCES; AND PRZEWORSKI'S ATTEMPT TO DISTINGUISH RATIONALITY AND FEASIBILITY OF SYSTEMS. THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE CONCLUDES THAT ARGUMENTS ABOUT THE VICES OF MARKETS AS SUCH DEPEND ON CONTENTIONS ABOUT THE FORMATION OF MOTIVATIONS THAT WOULD DEFEAT ALL SUCH SPECULATIONS. IN THE ABSENCE OF A MORE COMPELLING CASE FOR THOSE CONTENTIONS, AND IN THE ABSENCE OF A PLAUSIBLE AND WELL-DEFINED ALTERNATIVE TO MARKET COORDINATION, THERE ARE NO COMPELLING GROUNDS FOR CONDEMNING MARKETS AS IRRATIONAL AND AS ESSENTIALLY HOSTILE TO THE IDEAL OF A FREE COMMUNITY OF EQUALS.