Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies
Bibliographic Collection:
Anthropogeny
Publication Type: Book
Authors: Henrich, Joseph Patrick; Boyd, Robert; Bowles, Samuel; Camerer, Colin; Fehr, Ernst; Gintis, Herbert
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of Pages: 451
Publisher: Oxford University Press
City: New York
Publication Language: eng
ISBN Number: 9780199262052
Keywords: Altruism, Economics, Game theory., Helping behavior, Social interaction
Abstract:
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 social sciences.
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