You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: The Moral Molecule Under The Microscope #4: On The Significance Of Oxytocin Modulating Our Behavior
It seems almost as though rational, self interest was just an assumption to simplify economic models. Like in physical science, you often assume ideal gas behavoir because modelling the real world is too hard and complicated.
Yes, a big reason for that assumption was the simplification of models. Nevertheless nowadays with smarter algorithms and more powerful computers we can solve much more complex models. Therefore the necessity for simplification is gone.