Selfishness, Altruism, and Rationality

A Theory of Social Choice

By: Howard Margolis

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Paperback | 15 October 1984 | Edition Number 1

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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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Preface Special notation Introduction
Overview
Paradoxes
A Darwinian argument
A new model
Applying the FS model
Translating across paradigms
Voting behavior
Leaders and followers
Sketch of further applications Technical appendixes
Diagrammatic treatment of goods versus participation altruism
Detailed introduction of the FS model
Some properties of the FS model
Extended Lindahl-Samuelson equilibria
Coerced and voluntary spending
Interaction of FS and Schelling's "inner struggle"
Notes on further psychological issues
Notes
Literature cited
Index
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