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Title:
Meeting at Grand Central : understanding the social and evolutionary roots of cooperation
Author:
Cronk, Lee, author.
ISBN:
9780691154954

9781283646277

9781400845484
Publication Information:
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 246 pages) : illustrations
Abstract:
"Meeting at Grand Central brings together insights from evolutionary biology, political science, economics, anthropology, and other fields to explain how the interactions between our evolved selves and the institutional structures we have created make cooperation possible. The book begins with a look at the ideas of Mancur Olson and George Williams, who shifted the question of why cooperation happens from an emphasis on group benefits to individual costs. It then explores how these ideas have influenced our thinking about cooperation, coordination, and collective action. The book persuasively argues that cooperation and its failures are best explained by evolutionary and social theories working together. Selection sometimes favors cooperative tendencies, while institutions, norms, and incentives encourage and make possible actual cooperation."--Publisher's website.
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