Selfishness, Altruism and Rationality: A Theory of Social Choice - Couverture rigide

Margolis, Howard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521240689 ISBN 13 : 9780521240680

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1982

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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

Biographie de l'auteur

Howard Margolis has held research and teaching appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, and the University of California, Irvine.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1982
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521240689
• ISBN 13: 9780521240680
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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