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Reciprocity, Altruism and the Civil Society: In praise of heterogeneity

By Luigino Bruni

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2008
ISBN
9780203926666, 9780415428583, 0415428580
LCC
HB72 .B78 2008
Open Library ID
OL10206099M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1264825 bytes)
Series
Routledge Advances in Game Theory
Edition
1st Ed.
Pages
158\173
Library
Mexmat
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-02-23 10:11:24

Description

The main emphasis of this new book from Luigino Bruni is a praise of heterogeneity, arguing that society works when different people are able to cooperate in many different ways. The author engages in a novel approach to reciprocity looking at its different forms in society, from cautious or contractual interactions, to the reciprocity of friendship to unconditional behaviour.Bruni'ss historical-methodological analysis of reciprocity is a way of examining the interface between political economy and the issue of sociality, generally characterized by 'two hundred years of solitude' of the homo economicus. This historical analysis exposes an absence and this book looks at the reasons why among the many forms of reciprocity present in the civil life economics has chosen to deal just with the simplest ones (contracts and repeated self-interested interactions). The second part of the book is an analysis (with repeated and evolutionary games) of the interactions of the three forms of reciprocity faced with a forth strategy; the non-reciprocity.

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