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Questions the widely held assumption that human beings are selfish and aggressive by nature and presents knowledge gained in the last twenty years about the socialization practices and experiences that shape caring, helpful, and altruistic persons.
Questions the widely held assumption that human beings are selfish and aggressive by nature and presents knowledge gained in the last twenty years about the socialization practices and experiences that shape caring, helpful, and altruistic persons.
This book presents the Metaeconomics Framework and Dual Interest Theory, which weave the empathy-based moral and ethical dimension back into key economic questions. Metaeconomics addresses the problem of placing too much emphasis on the market or the government, and thus argues …
A dramatic transformation has begun in the way scholars think about human nature. Political scientists, psychologists, economists, and evolutionary biologists are beginning to reject the view that human affairs are shaped almost exclusively by self-interest--a view that came to …
For three decades, genetic altruism has been cited as the dominant theory to explain the paradox of human generosity ; experts claim our altruism is limited to close kin. But Moral Origins tells a different story.
A noted anthropologist explains how our sense of ethics has changed over the course of human evolution.
This revelatory tour de force by an acclaimed and internationally bestselling science writer upends our understanding of "survival of the fittest" and invites us all to think and act more altruistically. The phrase "survival of the fittest" conjures an image of the most cutthroa…
This revelatory tour de force by an acclaimed and internationally bestselling science writer upends our understanding of "survival of the fittest" and invites us all to think and act more altruistically. The phrase "survival of the fittest" conjures an image of the most cutthroa…
