Individuality and Entanglement (eBook)

The Moral and Material Bases of Social Life

Herbert Gintis (Autor)

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2016
384 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8316-5 (ISBN)

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Herbert Gintis is an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of a number of books, including Game Theory Evolving, The Bounds of Reason, Unequal Chances, A Cooperative Species, and Game Theory in Action (all Princeton).

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A richly transdisciplinary account of some fundamental characteristics of human societies and behaviorIn this book, acclaimed economist Herbert Gintis ranges widely across many fields-including economics, psychology, anthropology, sociology, moral philosophy, and biology-to provide a rigorous transdisciplinary explanation of some fundamental characteristics of human societies and social behavior. Because such behavior can be understood only through transdisciplinary research, Gintis argues, Individuality and Entanglement advances the effort to unify the behavioral sciences by developing a shared analytical framework-one that bridges research on gene-culture coevolution, the rational-actor model, game theory, and complexity theory. At the same time, the book persuasively demonstrates the rich possibilities of such transdisciplinary work.Everything distinctive about human social life, Gintis argues, flows from the fact that we construct and then play social games. Indeed, society itself is a game with rules, and politics is the arena in which we affirm and change these rules. Individuality is central to our species because the rules do not change through inexorable macrosocial forces. Rather, individuals band together to change the rules. Our minds are also socially entangled, producing behavior that is socially rational, although it violates the standard rules of individually rational choice. Finally, a moral sense is essential for playing games with socially constructed rules. People generally play by the rules, are ashamed when they break the rules, and are offended when others break the rules, even in societies that lack laws, government, and jails.Throughout the book, Gintis shows that it is only by bringing together the behavioral sciences that such basic aspects of human behavior can be understood.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.10.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 19 line illus. 2 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
• Schlagworte: addiction • Agency (sociology) • Altruism • Behavior • Behavioral Economics • Behavioral Game Theory • Behavioural Sciences • Calculation • Chimpanzee • Coefficient of relationship • Competition • Competition (economics) • Consumer goods • Cooperation • Coordination game • Cultural Hegemony • Customer • Decision-Making • Decision Theory • Dictator Game • dominance hierarchy • Donor • Dual Inheritance Theory • Economic Efficiency • Economic equilibrium • Economics • Ellsberg paradox • Emergence • Employment • endowment effect • Evolution • Externality • Fundamental theorems of welfare economics • General Equilibrium Theory • gopnik • group selection • Handicap principle • Heuristic • Impossibility • Incentive • inclusive fitness • Indifference curve • Internalization • invisible Hand • John Harsanyi • kin selection • Least Squares • Leveling (philosophy) • Loss Aversion • Marginal cost • marginal rate of substitution • Market Economy • Market Failure • Market power • Markov process • Medium of exchange • Meiotic drive • Morality • Nash Equilibrium • Norm (social) • Oppression • Ownership (psychology) • Pareto Efficiency • perfect competition • Phenotype • Precommitment • Preference (economics) • Prisoner's dilemma • Probability • Public sphere • rational agent • Rational Choice Theory • Rationality • result • Role • Satisficing • Self-Interest • Selfishness • Social dilemma • Social equilibrium • social relation • Social Structure • Social Theory • Sociobiology • Sociocultural evolution • Sociology • Sophistication • State of nature • strong reciprocity • Talcott Parsons • theory • the selfish gene • Thick Description • Tragedy of the commons • Trait Theory • Unemployment • Utilitarianism • Utility • Veil of Ignorance • Voting
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8316-4 / 1400883164
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8316-5 / 9781400883165