The Economics of Rights, Co-operation and Welfare
This is a new edition - with a substantial new introduction - of a book which has had a significant impact on economics, philosophy and political science. Robert Sugden shows how conventions of property, mutual aid, and voluntary supply of public goods can evolve spontaneously out of the interactions of self-interested individuals, and can become moral norms. Sugden was among the first social scientists to use evolutionary game theory. His approach remains distinctive in emphasizing psychological and cultural notions of salience.
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The Economics of Rights, Co-operation and Welfare
This is a new edition - with a substantial new introduction - of a book which has had a significant impact on economics, philosophy and political science. Robert Sugden shows how conventions of property, mutual aid, and voluntary supply of public goods can evolve spontaneously out of the interactions of self-interested individuals, and can become moral norms. Sugden was among the first social scientists to use evolutionary game theory. His approach remains distinctive in emphasizing psychological and cultural notions of salience.
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The Economics of Rights, Co-operation and Welfare

The Economics of Rights, Co-operation and Welfare

by R. Sugden
The Economics of Rights, Co-operation and Welfare

The Economics of Rights, Co-operation and Welfare

by R. Sugden

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This is a new edition - with a substantial new introduction - of a book which has had a significant impact on economics, philosophy and political science. Robert Sugden shows how conventions of property, mutual aid, and voluntary supply of public goods can evolve spontaneously out of the interactions of self-interested individuals, and can become moral norms. Sugden was among the first social scientists to use evolutionary game theory. His approach remains distinctive in emphasizing psychological and cultural notions of salience.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349400188
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 01/01/2005
Edition description: 1st ed. 2005
Pages: 243
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

ROBERT SUGDEN is Professor of Economics at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. His theoretical, experimental and philosophical work on social choice, choice under uncertainty, the foundations of decision and game theory, and the evolution of social conventions has been published in the leading journals of economics and philosophy.

Table of Contents

Spontaneous Order Games Co-ordination Property Possession Reciprocity Free Riders Natural Law Rights, Co-operation and Welfare
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