Foundations of Human Sociality Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies |
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| Editor:
| Henrich, Joseph
Boyd, Robert
Bowles, Samuel
Camerer, Colin
Fehr, Ernst
Gintis, Herbert
Bowles, Samuel |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-153221-4 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2004 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $40.43 |
Book Description:
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This path-breaking book addresses the nature of human sociality. By bringing together experimental and ethnographic data from fifteen different tribal societies, the contributors are able to explore the universality of human motives in economic decision-making, and the importance of social, institutional and cultural factors, in a manner that has been extremely rare in the social sciences. Its findings have far-reaching implications across the socialsciences.
This path-breaking book addresses the nature of human sociality. By bringing together experimental and ethnographic data from fifteen different tribal societies, the contributors are able to explore the universality of human motives in economic decision-making, and the importance of social, institutional and cultural factors, in a manner that has been extremely rare in the social sciences. Its findings have far-reaching implications across the socialsciences.