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Title Moral sentiments and material interests : the foundations of cooperation in economic life / edited by Herbert Gintis [and others]
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 404 pages) : illustrations
Series Economic learning and social evolution ; 6
MIT Press series on economic learning and social evolution ; v. 6.
Contents I. INTRODUCTION -- Moral sentiments and material interests: origins, evidence, and consequences / Herbert Gintis [and others] -- II. THE BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY OF COOPERATION -- The evolution of cooperation in primate groups / Joan B. Silk -- The natural history of human food sharing and cooperation: a review and a new multi-individual approach to the negotiation of norms / Hillard Kaplan, Michael Gurven -- Costly signaling and cooperative behavior / Eric A. Smith, Rebecca Bliege Bird -- III. MODELING AND TESTING STRONG RECIPROCITY -- The economics of strong reciprocity / Ernst Fehr, Urs Fischbacher -- Modeling strong reciprocity / Armin Falk, Urs Fischbacher -- The evolution of altruistic punishment / Robert Boyd [and others] -- Norm compliance and strong reciprocity / Rajiv Sethi, E. Somanathan -- IV. RECIPROCITY AND SOCIAL POLICY -- Policies that crowd out reciprocity and collective action / Elinor Ostrom -- Reciprocity and the welfare state / Christina M. Fong [and others] -- Fairness, reciprocity, and wage rigidity / Truman Bewley -- The logic of reciprocity: trust, collective action, and law / Dan M. Kahan -- Social capital, moral sentiments, and community governance / Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis
Summary Multidisciplinary research into cooperation and the implications for public policy, drawing on insights from economics, anthropology, biology, social psychology, and sociology
Analysis ECONOMICS/General
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Cooperation
Game theory.
Economics -- Sociological aspects.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Theory.
Cooperation
Economics -- Sociological aspects
Game theory
Wirtschaftskooperation
Wirtschaftliches Verhalten
Wirtschaftsethik
Wirtschaftssoziologie
Verhaltensforschung
Unternehmen
Kooperation
Gegenseitigkeit
Interaktion
Interessenstruktur
Kooperatives Verhalten
Sozialethik
Spieltheorie
Samenwerking.
Altruïsme.
Sociale normen.
Speltheorie.
Economie.
Antropologie.
Sociale psychologie.
Sociologische aspecten.
Form Electronic book
Author Gintis, Herbert
LC no. 2004055175
ISBN 9780262273862
0262273861
1282097717
9781282097711
9780262308304
0262308304
9786612097713
661209771X
1429413034
9781429413039