Selfishness, Altruism, and Rationality - Couverture souple

Margolis, Howard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226505243 ISBN 13 : 9780226505244

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1984

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Howard Margolis is a professor in the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies and in the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Selfishness, Altruism, and Rationality and Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1984
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226505243
• ISBN 13: 9780226505244
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 206
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• Personne responsable: non disponible