The Grammar of Society: The Nature and Dynamics of Social Norms
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0521574900
ISBN 13
9780521574907
Category
Ethical Theories
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Publication Year
2005
Publisher
Pages
278
Description
Cristina Bicchieri examines social norms, such as fairness, cooperation, and reciprocity, in an effort to understand their nature and dynamics, generated expectations and evolution and change. Drawing on intellectual traditions and methods, including those of social psychology, experimental economics and evolutionary game theory, Bicchieri provides an integrated account of how social norms emerge and why and when we follow them. Examining the existence and survival of inefficient norms, she demonstrates how norms evolve in ways that depend upon the psychological dispositions of the individual and how such dispositions may impair social efficiency. - from Amzon
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