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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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Psychology Social, group or collective psychology

• Full title: Selfishness, Altruism, and Rationality
• Author: Howard Margolis
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 201
• EAN: 9780226505244
• ISBN: 0226505243
• ID: 04547226
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 332 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 157 × 24 mm

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