Altruism as a problem involving group versus individual selection in economics and biology.
Economists, spellbound by the idea that economic man is inherently self-maximizing, have an almost comic aversion to the idea of altruism. While there are cases in which acts of apparent selflessness can be plausibly written off to enlightened self-interest, the casuist argument that a governess wh...
| Publicado en: | American Economic Review Vol. 83; pp. 143 - 149 |
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American Economic Association
May 1993
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