Methodological altruism as an alternative foundation for individual optimization
Can economics, which is based on the notion of individual optimization, really model individuals who have a sense of exteriority? This question, derived both from Marcel Mauss's sociological analysis of the social norm of gift-giving and from Emmanuel Levinas's phenomenological analysis of...
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2000
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2000, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 115-136 |
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Rational Choice Theory
B Methodological Individualism B philosophy of economics B Levinas B Gift-giving B Mauss B Altruism |
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