Evolutionary Origins of Markets - How Evolution, Psychology and Biology Have Shaped the Economy

List of contents

Introduction, Part I: Social Brain, Chapter 1: The Myth of The Dissociative Identities, Chapter 2: Why Wouldn’t Chimpanzees Wear Sunglasses While Playing Poker? Part II: Economizing Brain, Chapter 3: Cognitively Lazy, Chapter 4: Emotionally Smart, Part III: Interactive Minds, Chapter 5: Reciprocal brain, Chapter 6: Mind Reading, Part IV: Key Innate Competencies, Chapter 7: Emotional path to willpower, Chapter 8: Sapiens See, Sapiens Do (Monkey? Not So Much.), Part V: Pursuit of Identities, Tribes, and Emotional Connections, Chapter 9: Human Sociality in the Market, Epilogue, Index

About the author

Rojhat Avşar is an associate professor of economics at Columbia College Chicago. His research and teaching interests include social behavior, ethical norms, economic discourse, origin of human institutions, and political economy.

Summary

The book integrates the growing body of experimental evidence on human nature scattered across a variety of disciplines into a coherent, original narrative about the extent to which market relations are reflective of the basic human sociality that was originally adapted to a more tribal existence.

Product details

• Authors: Rojhat Avsar, Rojhat (Columbia College Chicago Avsar, Rojhat Avşar
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9780815387183
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-8718-3
• No. of pages: 130
• Series: Economics as Social Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics, Economic history, Economic theory & philosophy, Political Economy, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Microeconomics, Economic theory and philosophy