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Reciprocity, Altruism and the Civil Society Luigino Bruni

Reciprocity, Altruism and the Civil Society By Luigino Bruni

Reciprocity, Altruism and the Civil Society by Luigino Bruni


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Reciprocity is a term expressed by philosophers such as Confucius and Jesus Christ via social psychology, international relations and cultural anthropology. This book is the first to examine it from an economics perspective.

Reciprocity, Altruism and the Civil Society Summary

Reciprocity, Altruism and the Civil Society: In praise of heterogeneity by Luigino Bruni

The main emphasis of this new book from Luigino Bruni is a praise of heterogeneity, arguing that society works when different people are able to cooperate in many different ways. The author engages in a novel approach to reciprocity looking at its different forms in society, from cautious or contractual interactions, to the reciprocity of friendship to unconditional behaviour.

Bruni'ss historical-methodological analysis of reciprocity is a way of examining the interface between political economy and the issue of sociality, generally characterized by 'two hundred years of solitude' of the homo economicus. This historical analysis exposes an absence and this book looks at the reasons why among the many forms of reciprocity present in the civil life economics has chosen to deal just with the simplest ones (contracts and repeated self-interested interactions). The second part of the book is an analysis (with repeated and evolutionary games) of the interactions of the three forms of reciprocity faced with a forth strategy; the non-reciprocity.

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Luigino Bruni

Table of Contents

Table of Contents, Introduction, Acknowledgements, Chapter 1: The current debate on economics and reciprocity, Chapter 2: Homo Oeconomicus' two hundred years of solitude, Chapter 3: A first form of reciprocity: cooperation without benevolence, Chapter 4: Reciprocity on Philia, Chapter 5: Unconditional reciprocity, Chapter 6: Dynamics of reciprocity in a heterogeneous world,Chapter 7: Three is better than two, Chapter 8: In praise of heterogeneity, Chapter 9: Reciprocity is one, but reciprocities are many, References

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NLS9780415569644
9780415569644
0415569648
Reciprocity, Altruism and the Civil Society: In praise of heterogeneity by Luigino Bruni
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2009-11-24
162
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