D Microeconomics

摘要

Explores why humans cooperate in large numbers to advance projects for the common good and examines the cultural, biological, and other processes that explain how humans became exceptionally cooperative. Discusses the evolution of altruism in humans; social preferences; the sociobiology of human cooperation; cooperative Homo economicus; ancestral human society; the coevolution of institutions and behaviors; parochialism, altruism, and war; the evolution of strong reciprocity; socialization; social emotions; and human cooperation and its evolution. Bowles is Head of the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute and teaches economics at the University of Siena. Gintis is at the Santa Fe Institute, the Central European University, and the University of Siena. Name and subject indexes.