Qual o valor do auto-interesse? What is the value of self-interest?

<abstract language="eng">The article critically reviews past and current justifications for the theoretical use of the behavioral assumption of self-interest, explanatory, normative, representational and critical, focusing on the critical function. This latter emerges from an incursi...

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Main Author: Celia Lessa Kerstenetzky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editora 34 2005-09-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Political Economy
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-31572005000300006
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spelling doaj-f5875faf018d44dfb0fc87634cbae54b2020-11-24T23:14:35ZengEditora 34Brazilian Journal of Political Economy0101-31571809-45382005-09-0125325427610.1590/S0101-31572005000300006Qual o valor do auto-interesse? What is the value of self-interest?Celia Lessa Kerstenetzky<abstract language="eng">The article critically reviews past and current justifications for the theoretical use of the behavioral assumption of self-interest, explanatory, normative, representational and critical, focusing on the critical function. This latter emerges from an incursion into the modern history of ideas and may be shown still to fertilize a number of contemporary economic approaches.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-31572005000300006Self-InterestAdam SmithFriedrich HayekRational ChoiceInstitutions
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Qual o valor do auto-interesse? What is the value of self-interest?
Brazilian Journal of Political Economy
Self-Interest
Adam Smith
Friedrich Hayek
Rational Choice
Institutions
author_facet Celia Lessa Kerstenetzky
author_sort Celia Lessa Kerstenetzky
title Qual o valor do auto-interesse? What is the value of self-interest?
title_short Qual o valor do auto-interesse? What is the value of self-interest?
title_full Qual o valor do auto-interesse? What is the value of self-interest?
title_fullStr Qual o valor do auto-interesse? What is the value of self-interest?
title_full_unstemmed Qual o valor do auto-interesse? What is the value of self-interest?
title_sort qual o valor do auto-interesse? what is the value of self-interest?
publisher Editora 34
series Brazilian Journal of Political Economy
issn 0101-3157
1809-4538
publishDate 2005-09-01
description <abstract language="eng">The article critically reviews past and current justifications for the theoretical use of the behavioral assumption of self-interest, explanatory, normative, representational and critical, focusing on the critical function. This latter emerges from an incursion into the modern history of ideas and may be shown still to fertilize a number of contemporary economic approaches.
topic Self-Interest
Adam Smith
Friedrich Hayek
Rational Choice
Institutions
url http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-31572005000300006
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