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Moral Sentiments and Material Interests - The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life

By Herbert Gintis , Samuel Bowles , Robert T. Boyd , Ernst Fehr

Book information

Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0262072521, 9780262072526
LCC
HD2961 .M657 2004
Open Library ID
OL22630408M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2076821 bytes)
Series
Economic Learning and Social Evolution
Pages
417\417
Topic
Economy
Library
Great Science Textbooks DVD Library 2007
Time added
2009-10-26 09:21:54

Description

Moral Sentiments and Material Interests presents an innovative synthesis of research in different disciplines to argue that cooperation stems not from the stereotypical selfish agent acting out of disguised self-interest but from the presence of "strong reciprocators" in a social group.Presenting an overview of research in economics, anthropology, evolutionary and human biology, social psychology, and sociology, the book deals with both the theoretical foundations and the policy implications of this explanation for cooperation. Chapter authors in the remaining parts of the book discuss the behavioral ecology of cooperation in humans and nonhuman primates, modeling and testing strong reciprocity in economic scenarios, and reciprocity and social policy. The evidence for strong reciprocity in the book includes experiments using the famous Ultimatum Game (in which two players must agree on how to split a certain amount of money or they both get nothing.)

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