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What is Rene Girard's view about economics?
Aglietta and Orléan follow Girard in suggesting that the basic relation of exchange can be interpreted as a conflict of 'doubles', each mediating the desire of the Other.
Did Rene Girard author any texts?
Rene Girard was the author of nearly thirty books, with his writings spanning many academic domains.
What was Rene Girard's view on commodity fetishism?
In the theory of commodity fetishism, the market takes the place of the sacred in modern life as the chief institutional mechanism stabilizing the otherwise explosive conflicts of desiring subjects.

Question: What was his view on economic rationality?
Self-contained rewrite: What was Rene Girard's view on economic rationality?