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SUMMARY:MET Seminar - Pawel Dziewulski (Sussex)
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DESCRIPTION:Title: On pure altruism\n\nAuthors: Pawel Dziewulski & ?ukasz
  Wo?ny\n\nAbstract: We revisit the notion of pure altruism and propose a
  general framework for studying altruistic behaviour across a wide range
  of economic settings. In our approach\, an agent (the parent) is repres
 ented by a function that maps the preferences of those they interact wit
 h (the descendant) into their own preferences. This representation captu
 res how the parent’s objectives adjust in response to the preferences of
  others\, thereby providing a flexible formalisation of altruistic attit
 udes. Within this framework\, we introduce a natural and robust notion o
 f comparative altruism: one parent is said to be more altruistic than an
 other if\, for any possible preferences of the descendant\, the former’s
  choices are always (weakly) preferred by the descendant to the latter’s
  choices. We characterise this ordering and demonstrate its implications
  in economic applications. In particular\, we show that in problems of c
 haritable giving\, under minimal assumptions\, a more altruistic parent 
 donates more to the descendant.\n\nContact: sophie.kreutzkamp@manchester
 .ac.uk
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LOCATION:Williamson_4.08 Seminar Room \, Williamson Building\, Manchester
 
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