Selfishness, Altruism, and Rationality
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Selfishness, Altruism, and Rationality
Book Details
- Author
- Howard Margolis
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Microeconomics
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780226505244
- ISBN-10
- 0226505243
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ISBN: 0226505243
Author: Margolis, Howard
Condition: New
Why do we volunteer time? Why do we contribute money? Why, even, do we vote, if the effect of a single vote is negligible? Rationality-based microeconomic models are hard-pressed to explain such social behavior, but Howard Margolis proposes a solution. He suggests that within each person there are two selves, one selfish and the other group-oriented, and that the individual follows a Darwinian rule for allocating resources between those two selves."Howard Margolis's intriguing ideas . . . provide an alternative to the crude models of rational choice that have dominated economics and political science for too long."-Times Literary Supplement
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