In a long and quite fascinating comment, I. M. Flaud alludes
to a book by Herb Gintis, Human Evolution: A Behavioral Synthesis, on the
hypothesized origin of human cooperative social intelligence.
I shall have to hunt it up and take a look.
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3 comments:
Is the title: A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution ?
Why we Cooperate by Michael Tomasello is a devastatingly good critique of capitalism, albeit nothing in the book is about capitalism!
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Cooperate-Boston-Review-Books/dp/0262013592/ref=sr_1_sc_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1490383523&sr=8-3-spell&keywords=michael+thomasello
I.M. Flaud did not reference a book by H. Gintis but rather a 12-page paper, which one can download by clicking on the link to the pdf that I.M. Flaud provided. (I've downloaded the paper but only skimmed it.)
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