Susumu Egashira & Masanori Taishido 
A Genealogy of Self-Interest in Economics [PDF ebook] 

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 multiplepressures: Economics, other disciplines, and social reality.

Susumu Egashira, Department of Economics, Otaru University of Commerce

Masanori Taishido, Faculty of Economics, Toyo University

Wade Hands, Department of Economics, University of Puget Sound

Uskali Mäki, Department of Political and economic Studies, University of Helsinki