Historicizing Self-Interest in the Modern Atlantic World: A Plea for Ego? Zabel Christine
Historicizing Self-Interest in the Modern Atlantic World: A Plea for Ego? Zabel Christine This volume historicizes the use of the notion of self-interest that at least since Bernard de Mandeville and…
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Historicizing Self-Interest in the Modern Atlantic World: A Plea for Ego? Zabel Christine
This volume historicizes the use of the notion of self-interest that at least since Bernard de Mandeville and Adam Smith's theories is considered a central component of economic theory.Having in the twentieth century become one of the key-features of rational choice models, and thus is seen as an idealized trait of human behavior, self-interest has, despite Albert O. A historicization(s) of self-interest, however, offers new insights into the concept by asking why, when, for what reason and in which contexts the notion was discussed or referred to, how it was employed by contemporaries, and how the different usages developed and changed over time. Hirschman's pivotal analysis of self-interest, only marginally been historicized.
This helps us to appreciate the various transformations in the perception of the notion, and also to explore how and in what ways different people at