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Decision theory can be broken into two branches: normative decision theory, which gives advice on how to make the best decisions, given a set of uncertain beliefs and a set of values; and descriptive decision theory, which analyzes how existing, possibly irrational agents actually make decisions.
The main places it is discussed are as follows. 1  Therborn, Ch. 2 discusses critical theory primarily as Marxist theory and its twentieth century variants. 2  Some philosophical aspects associated with the critical theory perspective are very briefly noted on pp. 95-6.