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Individuality and entanglement: the moral and material bases of social life

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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Overview -- 1 Gene-Culture Coevolution -- 1.1 Culture Determines Biological Fitness -- 1.2 Reciprocal Causality -- 1.3 The Physiology of Human Communication -- 2 Zoon Politikon: The Evolutionary Origins of Human Socio-political Systems -- 2.1 Accounting for Human Exceptionalism -- 2.2 Models of Political Power -- 2.3 The Moral Basis of Modern Political Systems -- 2.4 The Socio-political Structure of Primate Societies -- 2.5 The Evolutionary History of Primate Societies -- 2.6 Fire and Social Sharing -- 2.7 From Gatherer to Scavenger -- 2.8 Primitive Lethal Weapons -- 2.9 Warfare -- 2.10 Dominance and Reverse Dominance Hierarchies -- 2.11 Are There Egalitarian Nonhuman Primates? -- 2.12 Governance by Consent -- 2.13 Cooperative Mothering: The Evolution of Prosociality -- 2.14 Lethal Weapons and Egalitarianism -- 2.15 The Long-Term Evolution of Human Sociality -- 3 Distributed Effectivity: Political Theory and Rational Choice -- 3.1 Public and Private Spheres -- 3.2 Private and Public Persona -- 3.3 Social Rationality -- 3.4 The Social Rationality of Voter Turnout -- 3.5 The Logic of Distributed Effectivity -- 3.6 Situating Distributed Effectivity -- 4 Power and Trust in Competitive Markets -- 4.1 The Short-Side Power Principle -- 4.2 Power in Competitive Markets -- 4.3 Trust and Integrity -- 4.4 Reputational Equilibrium -- 4.5 Contingent Renewal Labor Markets -- 4.6 I'd Rather Fight than Switch -- 4.7 Regulating Market Power -- 5 Rational Choice Revealed and Defended -- 5.1 The Axioms of Rational Choice -- 5.2 Choice Under Uncertainty -- 5.3 Bayesian Updating with Radical Uncertainty -- 5.4 State-Dependent Preferences -- 5.5 Networked Minds and Distributed Cognition -- 5.6 Limitations of the Rational Actor Model -- 6 An Analytical Core for Sociology -- 6.1 Game Theory -- 6.2 Complexity.

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Individuality and entanglement: the moral and material bases of social life

Gintis, Herbert; JSTOR (Organization)

Gene-culture coevolution -- Zoon politikon : the evolutionary origins of human socio-political systems -- Distributed effectivity : political theory and rational choice -- Power and trust in competitive markets -- Rational choice revealed and defended -- An analytical core for sociology -- The theory of action reclaimed -- The evolution of property -- The sociology of the genome -- Gene-culture coevolution and the internalization of norms -- The economy as complex dynamical system -- The future of the behavioral sciences.

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Individuality and Entanglement: The Moral and Material Bases of Social Life

Gintis, Herbert

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Overview -- 1 Gene-Culture Coevolution -- 2 Zoon Politikon: The Evolutionary Origins of Human Socio-political Systems -- 3 Distributed Effectivity: Political Theory and Rational Choice -- 4 Power and Trust in CompetitiveMarkets -- 5 Rational Choice Revealed and Defended -- 6 An Analytical Core for Sociology -- 7 The Theory of Action Reclaimed -- 8 The Evolution of Property -- 9 The Sociology of the Genome -- 10 Gene-Culture Coevolution and the Internalization of Norms -- 11 The Economy as Complex Dynamical System -- 12 The Future of the Behavioral Sciences -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Subject Index -- Author Index