KERSTENETZKY, Celia Lessa

Qual valor do auto-interesse? - São Paulo : Editora 34, jul./set. 2005

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