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Autore |
Spread Patrick <1944-, > |
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Titolo |
Support-bargaining, economics and society : a social species / / Patrick Spread |
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Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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0-203-08122-6 |
1-283-84434-6 |
1-136-17233-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (313 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge frontiers of political economy ; ; 165 |
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Disciplina |
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Mutualism |
Negotiation |
Social sciences |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Support-Bargaining, Economics and Society; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1 The problem with natural selection; Praise and blame; Physical evidence and social evidence; The import from Malthus; Self- preservation and the struggle for existence; Impact of Darwin and Malthus; 2 Natural selection and support-bargaining; Competition and cooperation in group support-bargaining; Situation and interest; Violence and rigid groups; Natural selection and the support convention; The support convention in practice |
The great divide: natural selection and cultural evolutionClosing the divide; 3 Power and hierarchy; Power in social groups; Individuals, groups and the pursuit of power; Leadership and hierarchies; Democracy and support-bargaining; Money and the assembly of support; Individuals and groups: the Schumpeter theory of democracy; Support and the pursuit of power; 4 Power elites and pluralist democracy; Academic accounts of power; The power of elite groups: Mills and Lukes; Pluralist democracy: Dahl in New Haven; Support-bargaining in New Haven; Theory making and the accumulation of support |
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5 Sexual selection and kinshipStability, security and marriage; Culture, support-bargaining and mate selection; Kin groups and support-bargaining; 6 The evidence for support-bargaining; Laboratory experiments consistent with support-bargaining; The consistency of support-bargaining; Evidence for support-bargaining from introspection; 7 Theory making and social Darwinism; Intellectual support-bargaining; Social progress as natural selection; Racism, imperialism and militarism; Militarism and self-preservation; The cooperative approach on Darwinian lines |
Social theory and the rejection of DarwinThe status of theories; Support-bargaining and social Darwinism; Influence of natural selection; 8 Common theory and personification; Deity theory and secular rule; Deity theory and common theory; Development of uncommon theory; Common theory and language; Agency and personification; Lamarck and human agency; Personification and altruism in sociobiology; Depersonalisation and reason; World view and common theory; 9 Money-bargaining and the evolution of economies; Companies in money-bargaining; Evolutionary economic theory; The evolution of economies |
10 Social symmetriesThe significance of symmetry; The perception of symmetry; Symmetry and common theory; The symmetry of ceremony; Balance in social symmetry; Consumer choice and symmetry; The efficiency of symmetry; Conclusion; 11 Conclusion; Individual and group; Support-bargaining as ideology; Determinism and social accountability; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Support-Bargaining, Economics and Society links support-bargaining to Darwin's theory of natural selection and traces the implications of support-bargaining and money-bargaining across society. It provides a wholly different account of the functioning of human societies from anything that has gone before. Social scientists, ever since there have been such people, have missed the crucial human characteristic - the propensity to seek support - that has given rise to group formation and the evolution of human society. |
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