Meeting at Grand Central Understanding the Social and Evolutionary Roots of Cooperation

Name: Meeting at Grand Central Understanding the Social and Evolutionary Roots of Cooperation
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ISBN: 9781283646277

ISBN-10: 1283646277

ISBN-13: 9781283646277

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Authors: Lee Cronk, Beth L. Leech

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From the family to the workplace to the marketplace, every facet of our lives is shaped by cooperative interactions. Yet everywhere we look, we are confronted by proof of how difficult cooperation can be--snarled traffic, polarized politics, overexploited resources, social problems that go ignored. The benefits to oneself of a free ride on the efforts of others mean that collective goals often are not met. But compared to most other species, people actually cooperate a great deal. Why is this?"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…

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List price: $47.95
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1/1/2012
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 261
Language: English