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Gender Constructions and the Possibility of a Generous Economic Actor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Iulie Aslaksen
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Abstract

In this paper I discuss various approaches to human motivation, considering how the image of economic actors as motivated by narrow self-interest and greed may be changed to one of self-interest combined with generosity and social responsibility. I draw inspiration from feminist economics as well as from psychological, anthropological and mythological material. As an example, I consider the role of self-interest and generosity as motivating forces for ethical investment.

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Hypatia , Volume 17 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Love and Work , Spring 2002 , pp. 118 - 132
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Copyright © 2002 by Hypatia, Inc.

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