The main emphasis of this new book from Luigino Bruni is a praise
of heterogeneity, arguing that society works when different people
are able to cooperate in many different ways. The author engages in
a novel approach to reciprocity looking at its different forms in
society, from cautious or contractual interactions, to the
reciprocity of friendship to unconditional behaviour. Bruni'ss
historical-methodological analysis of reciprocity is a way of
examining the interface between political economy and the issue of
sociality, generally characterized by 'two hundred years of
solitude' of the homo economicus. This historical analysis exposes
an absence and this book looks at the reasons why among the many
forms of reciprocity present in the civil life economics has chosen
to deal just with the simplest ones (contracts and repeated
self-interested interactions). The second part of the book is an
analysis (with repeated and evolutionary games) of the interactions
of the three forms of reciprocity faced with a forth strategy; the
non-reciprocity.
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