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

Informationen zum Autor Herbert Gintis is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts and External Faculty at the Santa Fe Insitute. Samuel Bowles is Research Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute and Professor of Economics at the University of Siena. Ernst Fehr is Director of the Insitute for Empirical Research in Economics at the University of Zurich. Klappentext 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.) Zusammenfassung Multidisciplinary research into cooperation and the implications for public policy! drawing on insights from economics! anthropology! biology! social psychology! and sociology.

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• Authors: Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, Herbert (EDT)/ Bowles Gintis, Herbert Bowles Gintis
• Assisted by: Samuel Bowles (Editor), Samuel (Santa Fe Institute) Bowles (Editor), Robert Boyd (Editor), Robert (UCLA) Boyd (Editor), Ernst Fehr (Editor), Ernst (University of Zurich) Fehr (Editor), Herbert Gintis (Editor), Herbert (External Fac Gintis (Editor)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.2006
• EAN: 9780262572378
• ISBN: 978-0-262-57237-8
• No. of pages: 403
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 230 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Economic Learning and Social Evolution; Economic Learning and Social E; Moral Sentiments and Material Interests; Economic Learning and Social Evolution
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries