期刊名称：Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (EJPE)
印刷版ISSN：1876-9098
出版年度：2008
卷号：1
期号：1
出版社：Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics
摘要：Several game-theoretical lab experiments helped establish the
belief that economists are more selfish than non-economists. Since
differences in behaviour between experiment participants who are
students of economics and those who are not may be observed among
junior students as well, it is nowadays widely believed that the origin of
the greater selfishness is not the training they undergo, but selfselection.
In other words, selfish people voluntarily enrol in economics.
Yet, I argue that such explanation is unsatisfactory for several reasons. I
also suggest alternative explanations for the observed differences,
which have been so far unduly disregarded.
关键词：economics, experiments, moral trial, self-interest, selfselection
