Support-bargaining, economics, and society : a social species

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Title:

Support-bargaining, economics, and society : a social species

Author:

Spread, Patrick, 1944-

ISBN:

9780415641128

9780203081228

Personal Author:

Spread, Patrick, 1944-

Publication Information:

London ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013.

Physical Description:

xix, 295 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 165

Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 165.

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

The problem with natural selection -- Natural selection and support-bargaining -- Power and hierarchy -- Power elites and pluralist democracy -- Sexual selection and kinship -- The evidence for support-bargaining -- Theory making and social darwinism -- Common theory and personification -- Money-bargaining and the evolution of economies -- Social symmetries -- Conclusion.

Subject Term:

Mutualism.

Negotiation.

Social sciences.

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Summary

Support-Bargaining, Economics and Society links support-bargaining to Darwin's theory of natural selection and traces the implications of support-bargaining and money-bargaining across society. It provides a wholly different account of the functioning of human societies from anything that has gone before. Social scientists, ever since there have been such people, have missed the crucial human characteristic - the propensity to seek support - that has given rise to group formation and the evolution of human society.