Rojhat Avsar

The Evolutionary Origins of Markets (eBook, ePUB)

How Evolution, Psychology and Biology Have Shaped the Economy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Our elaborate market exchange system owes its existence not to our calculating brain or insatiable self-centeredness, but rather to our sophisticated and nuanced human sociality and to the inherent rationality built into our emotions. The modern economic system is helped a lot more than hindered by our innate social instincts that support our remarkable capacity for building formal and informal institutions.

The book integrates the growing body of experimental evidence on human nature scattered across a variety of disciplines from experimental economics to social neuroscience into a coherent and original narrative about the extent to which market (or impersonal exchange) relations are reflective of the basic human sociality that was originally adapted to a more tribal existence.

An accessible resource, this book will appeal to students of all areas of economics, including Behavioral Economics and Neuro-Economics, Microeconomics, and Political Economy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351173742
• Artikelnr.: 58062967

Autorenporträt

Rojhat Avsar is an associate professor of economics at Columbia College Chicago. His research and teaching interests include social behavior, ethical norms, economic discourse, origin of human institutions, and political economy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Social Brain
Chapter 1: The Myth of The Dissociative Identities
Chapter 2: Why Wouldn't Chimpanzees Wear Sunglasses While Playing Poker? Part II: Economizing Brain
Chapter 3: Cognitively Lazy
Chapter 4: Emotionally Smart
Part III: Interactive Minds
Chapter 5: Reciprocal brain
Chapter 6: Mind Reading
Part IV: Key Innate Competencies
Chapter 7: Emotional path to willpower
Chapter 8: Sapiens See
Sapiens Do (Monkey? Not So Much.)
Part V: Pursuit of Identities
Tribes
and Emotional Connections
Chapter 9: Human Sociality in the Market
Epilogue
Index