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Evolutionary psychology, economic freedom, trade and benevolence

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  • معلومة اضافية
    • بيانات النشر:
      Sciendo, 2019.
    • الموضوع:
      2019
    • Collection:
      LCC:Economics as a science
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      Our thesis is that the reason many of us today are inclined toward socialism (explicit cooperation) and against laissez-faire capitalism (implicit cooperation) is because the first type of behavior was much more genetically beneficial during previous generations of our species. There is, however, a seemingly strong argument against this hypothesis: evidence from human prehistory indicates that trade (implicit cooperation) previously was widespread. How, then, can we be hard-wired in favor of socialism and against capitalism if our ancestors were engaged in market behavior in past millennia? Although trade which is self-centered and beneficial (presumably mutually beneficial to all parties in the exchange) did indeed appear hundreds of thousands of years ago, benevolence was established in our hard-wiring very substantially earlier, literally hundreds of millions of years ago, and is therefore far more deeply integrated into the human psyche.
    • File Description:
      electronic resource
    • ISSN:
      1804-1663
    • Relation:
      https://doaj.org/toc/1804-1663
    • الرقم المعرف:
      10.2478/revecp-2019-0005
    • الرقم المعرف:
      edsdoj.4d75d1835e04318a70062f7c921b96e