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Identification and Economic Behavior Sympathy and Empathy in Historical Perspective

Philippe Fontaine

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In modern economics, the use of sympathy and empathy shows significant ambiguity. Sympathy has been used in two different senses. First, it refers to cases where the concern for others directly affects an individual's own welfare (Sen, 1977). Second, the term has served the purposes of welfare economics, where it is associated with interpersonal comparisons of the extended sympathy type, that is, comparisons between one's own situation in a social state and someone else's in a different social state (Arrow, 1963 [1951]). On the other hand, empathy has been used interchangeably with sympathy either to render the idea of interdependent utility functions (Leibenstein, 1976), or to convey the imaginative process of imagining oneself in someone else's place (Harsanyi, 1977).

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halshs-03427763 , version 1 (14-11-2021)

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Philippe Fontaine. Identification and Economic Behavior Sympathy and Empathy in Historical Perspective. Economics and Philosophy, 1997, 13 (2), pp.261-280. ⟨10.1017/S026626710000451X⟩. ⟨halshs-03427763⟩
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