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Meeting at Grand Central - Understanding the Social and Evolutionary Roots of Cooperation (Paperback)
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Meeting at Grand Central - Understanding the Social and Evolutionary Roots of Cooperation (Paperback)
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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 and the institutional
structures we have created make cooperation possible. The book
begins with a look at the ideas of Mancur Olson and George
Williams, who shifted the question of why cooperation happens from
an emphasis on group benefits to individual costs. It then explores
how these ideas have influenced our thinking about cooperation,
coordination, and collective action. The book persuasively argues
that cooperation and its failures are best explained by
evolutionary and social theories working together. Selection
sometimes favors cooperative tendencies, while institutions, norms,
and incentives encourage and make possible actual cooperation.
Meeting at Grand Central will inspire researchers from different
disciplines and intellectual traditions to share ideas and advance
our understanding of cooperative behavior in a world that is more
complex than ever before.
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