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
- ISBN13 9780521240680
- Publish Date 30 April 1982
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 10 July 1987
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Cambridge University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English