Cost of impure mice

Impure altruism and impure selfishness

Altruism refers to a willingness to benefit others, even at one’s own expense. In contrast, selfishness refers to prioritizing one’s own interests with no consideration for others. However, even if an agent is selfish, he might nevertheless act as if he were altruistic out of selfish concerns triggered when his action is observed; that is, he might seek to feel pride in acting altruistically an...

Impure Altruism and Impure Selfishness: Online Appendix

We provide an extention of GU model that incorporates a decision maker who is averse to inequality of allocations among other agents. We also provide a detaled discussion on the experiments on dictator games with an exit option.

Remarks on Impure Quotation*

Quotation marks are ambiguous, although the conventional rules that govern their different uses are similar in that they contain quantifications over quotable expressions. Pure uses are governed by a simple rule: by enclosing any expression within quotation marks one gets a singular term, the quotation, that stands for the enclosed expression. Impure uses are far less simple. In a series of use...

Keeping Literature Impure

An Tmplementation of Impure Suprogates

Surrogates or internal identifiers can be made to facilitate both fast access and storage independence if they are implemented properly. Such an implementation is discussed here; it permits the tuplcs of a relation to be accessed very fast by primary key for both random and sequential search without retarding the performance of secondary keys. It employs a key compression and a hasiiing algorit...