Altruists at War
W.G. Runciman: Human Reciprocity, 23 February 2012
A Co-operative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution
by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis.
Princeton, 262 pp., £24.95, July 2011,978 0 691 15125 0 Show More
by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis.
Princeton, 262 pp., £24.95, July 2011,
“... have been supported by the observations of anthropologists working in the field. Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis have themselves made influential contributions to this literature, and they come down firmly against the cynics. They do not believe that our other-regarding social preferences are all covert manifestations of self-interest, and insist on the ... ”
