A Genealogy of Self-Interest in Economics

Introductuion -- 1. Adam Smith on self-interest -- 2. Jeremy Bentham on self-interest -- 3. John Stuart Mill on self-interest and the assumption of economic theories -- 4. Leon Walras’ idea of human nature and theory of property: free exchange, communism, and association -- 5. Self-interest in Marshall’s economic thinking -- 6. Otto Neurath’s theory of felicitology and socialization: the meaning of physicalism in social sciences -- 7. On the innate selfishness of evaluation in Mises -- 8. Frank Knight on self-interest -- 9. Karl Polanyi’s motive of economy and institution -- 10. Schrödinger’s concept of economy and institution -- 11. Hayek on interest- the finding of rules on Great Society -- 12. Altruism: how economists have dealt with unselfish actions -- 13. Can agent based modeling realize Adam Smith’s perspective? -- 14. Are social preferences just “enlightened” self-interests after all?-Three non-reductivist responses from behavioral economics in practice -- 15. Homo economic us under multiple pressures: Economics, other disciplines, and social reality.