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CONTENTSPART ITHE EMERGENCE OF ALTRUISTIC BEHAVIOUR1. Mordecai Kurz (1978), ‘Altruism as an Outcome of Social Interaction’2. Martin L. Hoffman (1981), ‘Is Altruism Part of Human Nature?’3. Dennis Krebs (1982), ‘Psychological Approaches to Altruism: An Evaluation’4. Robert H. Frank (1987), ‘If Homo Economicus Could Choose His Own Utility Function, Would He Want One with a Conscience?’5. Nancy Eisenberg and Paul A. Miller (1987), ‘Empathy, Sympathy, and Altruism: Empirical and Conceptual Links’PART IIVARIETIES OF ALTRUISM6. Amartya Sen (1985), ‘Goals, Commitment, and Identity’7. Jack Hirshleifer (1977), ‘Shakespeare vs. Becker on Altruism: The Importance of Having the Last Word’8. David Collard (1975), ‘Edgeworth’s Propositions on Altruism’9. Ian Steedman (1989), ‘Rationality, economic man and altruism in P. H. Wicksteed’s Common Sense of Political Economy’10. David Miller (1988), ‘Altruism and the Welfare State’11. David Collard (1992), ‘Love is Not Enough’PART IIITHE RELEVANCE OF ALTRUISM AND SELFISHNESS12. Thomas C. Schelling (1978), ‘Altruism, Meanness, and Other Potentially Strategic Behaviors’13. Peter J. Hammond (1987), ‘Altruism’14. Dennis C. Mueller (1986), ‘Rational egoism versus adaptive egoism as fundamental postulate for a descriptive theory of human behavior’15. M. Teresa Lunati (1992), ‘On Altruism and Cooperation’16. John Hudson and Philip Jones (1994), ‘The Importance of the “Ethical Voter”: An Estimate of “Altruism:”’PART IVALTRUISM AND ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES17. Gary S. Becker (1981), ‘Altruism in the Family and Selfishness in the Market Place’18. Robert Sugden (1982), ‘On the Economics of Philanthropy’19. David A. Collard (1983), ‘Economics of Philanthropy: A Comment’20. Serge-Christophe Kolm (1983), ‘Altruism and Efficiency’21. Assar Lindbeck and Jörgen W. Weibull (1988), ‘Altruism and Time Consistency: The Economics of Fait Accompli’22. B. Douglas Bernheim and Oded Stark (1988), ‘Altruism Within the Family Reconsidered: Do Nice Guys Finish Last?’23. Oded Stark (1989), ‘Altruism and the Quality of Life’PART VEVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS OF ALTRUISM24. Gary S. Becker (1976), ‘Altruism, Egoism, and Genetic Fitness: Economics and Sociobiology’25. Paul A. Samuelson (1993), ‘Altruism as a Problem Involving Group versus Individual Selection in Economics and Biology’26. Theodore C. Bergstrom and Oded Stark (1993), ‘How Altruism Can Prevail in an Evolutionary Environment’27. Herbert A. Simon (1990), ‘A Mechanism for Social Selection and Successful Altruism’28. Oded Stark (1993), ‘Nonmarket transfers and altruism’PART VIEXTENDED RATIONALITY AND ALTRUISTIC BEHAVIOUR29. Albert O. Hirschman (1992), ‘Against Parsimony: Three Easy Ways of Complicating Some Categories of Economic Discourse’30. J. Philippe Rushton (1982), ‘Altruism and Society: A Social Learning Perspective’31. Elias L. Khalil (1990), ‘Beyond Self-Interest and Altruism, A Reconstruction of Adam Smith’s Theory of Human Conduct’32. Israel M. Kirzner (1990), ‘Self-Interest and the New Bashing of Economics: A Fresh Opportunity in the Perennial Debate?’33. Robert H. Frank, Thomas Gilovich, and Dennis T. Regan (1993), ‘Does Studying Economics Inhibit Cooperation?’