A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution by Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis

A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution

Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis

280 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction economics psychology science informative slow-paced
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Why do humans, uniquely among animals, cooperate in large numbers to advance projects for the common good? Contrary to the conventional wisdom in biology and economics, this generous and civic-minded behavior is widespread and cannot be explained ...

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