Impure Ice

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

Termination in Impure Concurrent Languages

An impure language is one that combines functional and imperative constructs. We propose a method for ensuring termination of impure concurrent languages that makes it possible to combine term rewriting measure-based techniques with traditional approaches for termination in functional languages such as logical relations. The method can be made parametric on the termination technique employed on...