History of Altruism Research Group Workshop

Second ANR Workshop:
The self-interest model and seemingly unselfish behavior in
postwar social science

23 May 2008
École normale supérieure de Cachan
Cournot Building, Room #205-207

23 May 2008
École normale supérieure de Cachan
Cournot Building, Room #205-207

10:00-11:15am
Clément Levallois (City University London)
The nine lives of altruism and ‘group selection’ in biology and economics

11:15-11:45am - Coffee break

11:45am-1:00pm
Teresa Tomas Rangil (EconomiX-Cachan and CPNSS)
Explaining Altruism, Explaining Wars: Jack Hirshleifer, 1960-1993

1:00-2:30pm - Lunch

2:30-3:45pm
Roger Backhouse (University of Birmingham)
Altruism and rationality in macroeconomics

3:45-4:00pm
Luigino Bruni (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Discussion

Workshop end

All requests for information should be sent to :
Philippe Fontaine : philippe.fontaine<at>ens-cachan.fr (replace <at> with @)

All requests for information should be sent to :
Philippe Fontaine : philippe.fontaine<at>ens-cachan.fr (replace <at> with @)