Meeting at Grand Central [ understanding the social and evolutionary roots of cooperation

"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...

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Main Authors: Cronk, Lee (Author), Leech, Beth L. , 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press , 2013
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Online Access:http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/iviewer/PUPB0001770/userkey/pc/1/0/read.html

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-235) and index 
505 0 |a 1. Cooperation, coordination, and collective action -- 2. Adaptation: a special and onerous concept -- 3. The logic of logic, and beyond -- 4. Cooperation and the individual -- 5. Cooperation and organizations -- 6. Meeting at Penn Station: coordination problems and cooperation -- 7. Cooperation emergent -- 8. Meeting at Grand Central 
520 |a "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."--Publisher's website 
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