Evolutionary psychology, economic freedom, trade and benevolence
| Autor: | Walter E. Block, Robert B. Eckhardt, John Levendis |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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z1 Socialist mode of production 050105 experimental psychology Economic freedom z14 Argument Benevolence z10 0502 economics and business Economics ddc:330 Selfishness 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences capitalism hard-wiring HB71-74 benevolence media_common Z1 05 social sciences Capitalism Neoclassical economics Evolutionary psychology Psyche Z14 Economics as a science Market behavior Z10 profit and loss selfishness General Economics Econometrics and Finance 050203 business & management evolutionary psychology |
| Zdroj: | Review of Economic Perspectives, Vol 19, Iss 2, Pp 73-94 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 1804-1663 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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