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Selfishness, altruism, and rationality : a theory of social choice / Howard Margolis.
Lippincott Library HB846.8 .M37 1984
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Lippincott Library HB846.8 .M37 1984
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Margolis, Howard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social choice.
- Altruism.
- Self-interest.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1984, c1982.
- Summary:
- 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 "
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 189-191.
- ISBN:
- 0226505243
- OCLC:
- 10725108
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