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The Ecology of Altruistic Motivations in Triadic Social Environments

In: The Economics of Reciprocity, Giving and Altruism

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  • Angelo Antoci

    (University of Sassari)

  • Pier Luigi Sacco

    (University of Bologna)

  • Stefano Zamagni

    (University of Bologna)

Abstract

For a long time, economists have maintained that individual preferences are part of the ‘fundamental’ level of description of an economic system. In particular, the widespread acceptance of methodological individualism has led economic analysis to treat preferences as the major ‘economically relevant’ characterization of individuality: the economic agent acts in such a way to maximize (on the basis of their information, computational abilities and so on) the degree of satisfaction of their preferences, and they are all the more rational the more they are able to mirror such preferences into action. In this perspective, thus, preferences are a primum movens that needs no further theoretical explanation, at least in the context of economic analysis.

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  • Angelo Antoci & Pier Luigi Sacco & Stefano Zamagni, 2000. "The Ecology of Altruistic Motivations in Triadic Social Environments," International Economic Association Series, in: L.-A. Gérard-Varet & S.-C. Kolm & J. Mercier Ythier (ed.), The Economics of Reciprocity, Giving and Altruism, chapter 19, pages 335-351, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-62745-5_19
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-62745-5_19
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    1. Angelo Antoci & Pier Sacco & Luca Zarri, 2004. "Coexistence of Strategies and Culturally-Specific Common Knowledge: An Evolutionary Analysis," Journal of Bioeconomics, Springer, vol. 6(2), pages 165-194, May.

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