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Self-governance and cooperation
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ISBN: 0198238398 9780198238393 Year: 1999 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,


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Libéralisme
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ISBN: 2738108091 9782738108098 Year: 2000 Publisher: Paris : Odile Jacob,

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Que vous soyez pour ou contre, de droite ou de gauche, vous croyez tout savoir sur le libéralisme, "sauvage" pour les uns, "salutaire" pour les autres. Mais pourquoi faut-il supprimer la législation sur la concurrence, instaurer la liberté d’immigration, supprimer le monopole de la Sécurité sociale ou encore recourir aux privatisations pour résoudre les problèmes écologiques ? Pourquoi l’euro n’est-il pas une invention libérale ? Pourquoi la mondialisation est-elle préférable à l’intégration régionale ? Pourquoi la politique de stabilisation est-elle une source d’instabilité économique ? Une réévaluation en profondeur de la pensée libérale ; une contribution iconoclaste aux débats sur les principes et la philosophie qui doivent nous guider. Et si le libéralisme, fort des trois principes que sont la liberté, la propriété, la responsabilité, était le véritable humanisme, la seule vraie utopie réaliste qui autorise la plus belle des espérances pour notre temps : la confiance optimiste dans l’individu ?


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The evolved apprentice : how evolution made humans unique
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ISBN: 0262016796 0262526662 0262302810 9780262302814 9780262016797 9780262526661 0262300494 Year: 2014 Volume: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press,

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Over the last three million years or so, our lineage has diverged sharply from those of our great ape relatives. Change has been rapid ( in evolutionary terms) and pervasive. Morphology, life history, social life, sexual behavior, and foraging patterns have all shifted sharply away from those of the other great apes. No other great ape lineage--including those of chimpanzees and gorillas--seems to have undergone such a profound transformation. In The Evolved Apprentice, Kim Sterelny argues that the divergence stems from the fact that humans gradually came to enrich the learning environment of the next generation. Humans came to cooperate in sharing information, and to cooperate ecologically and reproductively, as well, and these changes initiated positive feedback loops that drove us further from other great apes. Sterelny develops a new theory of the evolution of human cognition and human social life that emphasizes the gradual evolution of information-sharing practices across generations and how these practices transformed human minds and social lives. Sterelny proposes that humans developed a new form of ecological interaction with their environment, cooperative foraging. The ability to cope with the immense variety of human ancestral environments and social forms, he argues, depended not just on adapted minds but also on adapted developmental environments

Contractarianism and rational choice: essays on David Gauthier's Morals by agreement
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ISBN: 0521398150 0521391342 9780521391344 9780521398152 Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

The endogenous formation of economic coalitions
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ISBN: 184376265X 9781843762652 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cheltenham: Elgar,

Trust
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ISBN: 184064737X 9781840647372 Year: 2003 Volume: 3 Publisher: Northampton, MA: Elgar,


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A cooperative species
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ISBN: 9780691158167 9780691151250 0691158169 0691151253 1283088851 1400838835 9786613088857 9781283088855 9781400838837 Year: 2011 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Oxford Princeton University Press

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Why do humans, uniquely among animals, cooperate in large numbers to advance projects for the common good? Contrary to the conventional wisdom in biology and economics, this generous and civic-minded behavior is widespread and cannot be explained simply by far-sighted self-interest or a desire to help close genealogical kin. In A Cooperative Species, Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis--pioneers in the new experimental and evolutionary science of human behavior--show that the central issue is not why selfish people act generously, but instead how genetic and cultural evolution has produced a species in which substantial numbers make sacrifices to uphold ethical norms and to help even total strangers. The authors describe how, for thousands of generations, cooperation with fellow group members has been essential to survival. Groups that created institutions to protect the civic-minded from exploitation by the selfish flourished and prevailed in conflicts with less cooperative groups. Key to this process was the evolution of social emotions such as shame and guilt, and our capacity to internalize social norms so that acting ethically became a personal goal rather than simply a prudent way to avoid punishment. Using experimental, archaeological, genetic, and ethnographic data to calibrate models of the coevolution of genes and culture as well as prehistoric warfare and other forms of group competition, A Cooperative Species provides a compelling and novel account of how humans came to be moral and cooperative.


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Leben, Werk und Nachwirkung des Genossenschaftsgründers Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818-1888) : Dargestellt im Zusammenhang mit dem deuschen sozialen Protestantismus
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ISBN: 3792716828 9783792716823 Year: 1999 Volume: .122 Publisher: Köln: Rheinland-Verlag,


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Free riding
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ISBN: 0674033892 9780674033894 9780674028340 0674028341 0674267842 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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One individual's contribution to a large collective project - such as voting in a national election or contributing to a public television fund-raising campaign - often seems negligible. A striking proposition of contemporary economics and political science is that it would be an exercise of reason, not a failure of it, not to contribute to a collective project if the contribution is negligible, but to benefit from it nonetheless.But Richard Tuck wonders whether this phenomenon of free riding is a timeless aspect of human nature or a recent, historically contingent one. He argues for the latter, showing that the notion would have seemed strange to people in the nineteenth century and earlier and that the concept only became accepted when the idea of perfect competition took hold in economics in the early twentieth century.Tuck makes careful distinctions between the prisoner's dilemma problem, threshold phenomena such as voting, and free riding. He analyzes the notion of negligibility, and shows some of the logical difficulties in the idea - and how the ancient paradox of the sorites illustrates the difficulties.Tuck presents a bold challenge to the skeptical account of social cooperation so widely held today. If accepted, his argument may over time encourage more public-spirited behavior.

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