Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life
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...
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Multidisciplinary research into cooperation and the implications for public policy, drawing on insights from economics, anthropology, biology, social psychology, and sociology.
1Moral sentiments and material interests : origins, evidence, and consequences32The evolution of cooperation in primate groups433The natural history of human food sharing and cooperation : a review and a new multi-individual approach to the negotiation of norms754Costly signaling and cooperative behavior1155The economics of strong reciprocity1516Modeling strong reciprocity1937The evolution of altruistic punishment2158Norm compliance and strong reciprocity2299Policies that crowd out reciprocity and collective action25310Reciprocity and the welfare state27711Fairness, reciprocity, and wage rigidity30312The logic of reciprocity : trust, collective action, and law33913Social capital, moral sentiments, and community governance379
