Author: Howard Margolis
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: rationality, altruism, selfishness
Number of Pages: 201
Published: 1984-10-15
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0226505243
ISBN-13: 9780226505244

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 pol

Authors:Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden,
Publisher: Signet
Keywords: signet, selfishness, virtue
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1964-11-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0451163931
ISBN-13: 9780451163936

Ayn Rand here sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds man’s life--the life proper to a rational being--as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with man’s nature, with the creative requirements of his survival, and with a free society.

Author: James Lincoln Collier
Publisher: Backinprint.com
Keywords: america, selfishness, rise
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 2005-05-31
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 059535159X
ISBN-13: 9780595351596

“A vibrant, sweeping analysis of the roots of American self-indulgence” —Kirkus Reviews “This ringing, provocative jeremiad cuts a path through a haze of self-indulgent thought and action in the “me first” society.” —Publisher’s Weekly “Wonderful…a delight to read, even exciting…There are few books that inspire real enthusiasm. This is one of them.” —The Philadelphia Enquirer

Author: Joan Roughgarden
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: selfishness, darwinian, deconstructing, gene, genial
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-04-20
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0520258266
ISBN-13: 9780520258266

Are selfishness and individuality--rather than kindness and cooperation--basic to biological nature? Does a "selfish gene" create universal sexual conflict? In The Genial Gene, Joan Roughgarden forcefully rejects these and other ideas that have come to dominate the study of animal evolution. Building on her brilliant and innovative book Evolution’s Rainbow, in which she challenged accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation, Roughgarden upends the notion of the selfish gene and the theory of sexual selection and develops a compelling and controversial alternative theory

Authors:Rachael F. Heller, Richard F. Heller,
Publisher: Meredith Books
Keywords: deserve, guilt, life, getting, selfishness, healthy
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-01-02
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0696229609
ISBN-13: 9780696229602

An action plan for a better life, Healthy Selfishness helps readers recognize and understand patterns of self-denial; a self-assessment quiz answers the question, "Are you too good for your own good?"Chapters look at the value of healthy selfishness in specific areas—friends, family, work, weight, money, and more—to help readers identify how to take charge of their lives.The Hellers offer choices for making comfortable changes: Small steps, longer strides, and life-changing leaps.Healthy Selfishness is ultimately about life in proper balance, which makes this a book with something to offer

Authors:Daryl P. Domning, Monika K. Hellwig,
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: original, ashgate, science, religion, evolution, light, selfishness, sin, evil
Number of Pages: 213
Published: 2006-02
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0754653153
ISBN-13: 9780754653158

This book defends a startling idea: that the age-old theological and philosophical problems of original sin and evil, long thought intractable, have already been solved. The solution has come from the very scientific discovery that many consider the most mortal threat to traditional religion: evolution. Daryl Domning explains in straightforward terms the workings of modern evolutionary theory, Darwinian natural selection, and how this has brought forth life and the human mind. He counters objections to Darwinism that are raised by some believers and emphasizes that the evolutionary process nec