Moral Sentiments and Material Interests

The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-262-57237-8
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Economic Learning and Social Evolution

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).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gintis, Herbert

Bowles, Samuel

Boyd, Robert

Fehr, Ernst

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Boyd, Robert
Robert Boyd is Professor of Anthropology at University of California at Los Angeles.

Bowles, Samuel
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.

Fehr, Ernst
Ernst Fehr is Director of the Insitute for Empirical Research in Economics at the University of Zurich.

Gintis, Herbert
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.