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Selfishness, Altruism, and Rationality: A Theory of Social Choice
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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 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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- Authors
- Winer, M., & Margolis, H.
- Venue
- Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1983
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 656
- ISSN
- 0276-8739 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2002799226
- Cited by
- 389
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 27.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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