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Selfishness, Altruism, and Rationality

by Howard Margolis
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780226505244
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 201
  • Original Price: USD 37.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Revised
  • Item Weight: 273 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Sociology / General

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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