At Davidson, I want a deeper understanding of economic phenomena and training in rigorous reasoning skills to be able to study social policy issues. I want to explore the many research opportunities available at Davidson college. One of the projects done recently “A
Theoretical Analysis of Behaviour with Reciprocity and Fairness Concerns”, excited me as, presumably, it assumes human behaviour in the Rawlsian sense as opposed to in the Hobbesian self-interested sense. Along with my economics classes, I have sat in senior political philosophy seminars and am eager to challenge some of the basic assumptions about human nature that economics assumes, similar to what this paper has done. Just as Marx and Smith discussed both economics and political
Theoretical Analysis of Behaviour with Reciprocity and Fairness Concerns”, excited me as, presumably, it assumes human behaviour in the Rawlsian sense as opposed to in the Hobbesian self-interested sense. Along with my economics classes, I have sat in senior political philosophy seminars and am eager to challenge some of the basic assumptions about human nature that economics assumes, similar to what this paper has done. Just as Marx and Smith discussed both economics and political