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    Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of Emotions.Robert H. Frank - 1988 - Norton.
    In this book, I make use of an idea from economics to suggest how noble human tendencies might not only have survived the ruthless pressures of the material world, but actually have been nurtured by them.
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    Success and luck: good fortune and the myth of meritocracy.Robert H. Frank - 2016 - Princeton: Princeton University Press.
    How important is luck in economic success? No question more reliably divides conservatives from liberals. As conservatives correctly observe, people who amass great fortunes are almost always talented and hardworking. But liberals are also correct to note that countless others have those same qualities yet never earn much. In recent years, social scientists have discovered that chance plays a much larger role in important life outcomes than most people imagine. In Success and Luck, bestselling author and New York Times economics (...)
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    The Strategic Role of the Emotions.Robert H. Frank - 2011 - Emotion Review 3 (3):252-254.
    Sympathy and other moral emotions described by David Hume (1740/1978) and Adam Smith (1759/1966) motivate people to incur a host of costs they could easily avoid. Such emotions pose a challenge to evolutionary biologists, who have long stressed the primacy of narrow self-interest in Darwinian selection. In earlier work, I argued (Frank, 1987, 1988) that natural selection might have favored moral sentiments because of their capacity to facilitate solutions to one-shot social dilemmas. Here, I present a capsule summary of the (...)
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    Altruists with Green Beards: Still Kicking?Robert H. Frank - 2005 - Analyse & Kritik 27 (1):85-96.
    In earlier work, I proposed the ‘adaptive standard of rationality’, according to which narrow self-interest models can be broadened by positing additional tastes, but only upon a plausible showing that those tastes do not hamper resource acquisition in competitive environments. This proposal is related to the green beard hypothesis from biology, according to which altruism might be adaptive if its presence could be reliably signaled by some observable feature, such as a green beard. In their contribution to this issue Ernst (...)
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  5. Conflict of interest as an objection to consequentialist moral reasoning.Robert H. Frank - 2005 - In Don A. Moore (ed.), Conflicts of interest: challenges and solutions in business, law, medicine, and public policy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
     
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    A New Contractarian View of Tax and Regulatory Policy in the Emerging Market Economies.Robert H. Frank - 1993 - Social Philosophy and Policy 10 (2):258-281.
    Recent decades have seen a resurgence of contractarian thinking about the nature and origins of the state. Scholars in this tradition ask what constraints rational, self-interested actors might deliberately impose upon themselves. In response, Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, and other early contractarians answered that laws of property were an attractive alternative to “the war of all against all.” More recently, James Buchanan, Russell Hardin, Mancur Olson, Gordon Tullock, and others have used contractarian principles to justify laws that solve a variety of (...)
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    Feeling Our Way to the Common Good.Christoph Fehige & Robert H. Frank - 2010 - The Monist 93 (1):141-165.
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    Anhang: Eine formale Version des Festlegungsmodells.Robert H. Frank - 1992 - In Die Strategie der Emotionen: Passions Within Reason. De Gruyter. pp. 215-224.
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  9. Altruism in Competitive Environments.Robert H. Frank - 2002 - In Richard J. Davidson & Anne Harrington (eds.), Visions of Compassion: Western Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists Examine Human Nature. Oup Usa.
     
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    Bibliographie.Robert H. Frank - 1992 - In Die Strategie der Emotionen: Passions Within Reason. De Gruyter. pp. 225-234.
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    Die Strategie der Emotionen: Passions Within Reason.Robert H. Frank - 1992 - De Gruyter.
    Scientia nova veroffentlicht Originalarbeiten bahnbrechender Forscher oder allgemeinverstandliche Einfuhrungen in schwierige Spezialgebiete, die fur die Philosophie, Logik und Mathematik von ebenso grosser Bedeutung sind, wie fur die Natur- und Sozialwissenschaften. Scientia nova ist eine Bibliothek des modernen wissenschaftlichen Denkens, die dazu beitragt, die Zersplitterung der Forschung in Spezialgebiete zu uberwinden und einem neuen Denkstil zum Durchbruch zu verhelfen. ".
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    Group selection and “genuine” altruism.Robert H. Frank - 1994 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17 (4):620-621.
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    Honesty as an evolutionarily stable strategy.Robert H. Frank - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (4):705-706.
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    Inhalt.Robert H. Frank - 1992 - In Die Strategie der Emotionen: Passions Within Reason. De Gruyter. pp. 7-8.
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    Internal commitment and efficient habit formation.Robert H. Frank - 1995 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (1):127-127.
    Rachlin's attack on the internal commitment model rests on the demonstrably false claim that self-punishment does not exist. He is correct that habits are an effective device for solving self-control problems, but his additional claim that they are the only such device makes it hard to explain how good habits develop in the first place. Someone with a self-control problem would always choose the spuriously attractive reward, which, over time, would create bad habits.
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    Kapitel 11. Anstand.Robert H. Frank - 1992 - In Die Strategie der Emotionen: Passions Within Reason. De Gruyter. pp. 178-196.
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    Kapitel 1. Die Überwindung des Eigennutzes.Robert H. Frank - 1992 - In Die Strategie der Emotionen: Passions Within Reason. De Gruyter. pp. 13-27.
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    Kapitel 2. Das Paradox des Altruismus.Robert H. Frank - 1992 - In Die Strategie der Emotionen: Passions Within Reason. De Gruyter. pp. 28-45.
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    Kapitel 7. Die Vorhersage von Kooperation.Robert H. Frank - 1992 - In Die Strategie der Emotionen: Passions Within Reason. De Gruyter. pp. 117-126.
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    Kapitel 3. Eine Theorie der moralischen Gefühle.Robert H. Frank - 1992 - In Die Strategie der Emotionen: Passions Within Reason. De Gruyter. pp. 46-67.
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    Kapitel 9. Fairneß.Robert H. Frank - 1992 - In Die Strategie der Emotionen: Passions Within Reason. De Gruyter. pp. 140-156.
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    Kapitel 10. Liebe.Robert H. Frank - 1992 - In Die Strategie der Emotionen: Passions Within Reason. De Gruyter. pp. 157-177.
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    Kapitel 4. Reputation.Robert H. Frank - 1992 - In Die Strategie der Emotionen: Passions Within Reason. De Gruyter. pp. 68-87.
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    Kapitel 5. Signale.Robert H. Frank - 1992 - In Die Strategie der Emotionen: Passions Within Reason. De Gruyter. pp. 88-100.
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    Kapitel 12. Schluß.Robert H. Frank - 1992 - In Die Strategie der Emotionen: Passions Within Reason. De Gruyter. pp. 197-214.
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    Kapitel 6. Verräterische Spuren.Robert H. Frank - 1992 - In Die Strategie der Emotionen: Passions Within Reason. De Gruyter. pp. 101-116.
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    Kapitel 8. Wie wird man moralisch?Robert H. Frank - 1992 - In Die Strategie der Emotionen: Passions Within Reason. De Gruyter. pp. 127-139.
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    Personenregister.Robert H. Frank - 1992 - In Die Strategie der Emotionen: Passions Within Reason. De Gruyter. pp. 235-238.
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    Sachregister.Robert H. Frank - 1992 - In Die Strategie der Emotionen: Passions Within Reason. De Gruyter. pp. 239-248.
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    Strategies for Solving Impulse-Control Problems: Comments on George Ainslie's "Picoeconomics".Robert H. Frank - 1993 - Behavior and Philosophy 21 (2):49 - 55.
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    Vorwort.Robert H. Frank - 1992 - In Die Strategie der Emotionen: Passions Within Reason. De Gruyter. pp. 9-12.
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    Book ReviewsRichard H., Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. 308. $26.00 ; $16.00. [REVIEW]Robert H. Frank - 2008 - Ethics 119 (1):202-208.
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    Review of Richard Posner's "Sex and Reason". [REVIEW]Robert H. Frank - 1995 - Economics and Philosophy 11 (1):189-197.