Support-bargaining, economics and society : a social species / Patrick Spread.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spread, Patrick, 1944-

Series:

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 165

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mutualism.

Negotiation.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Cover; Support-Bargaining, Economics and Society; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1 The problem with natural selection; Praise and blame; Physical evidence and social evidence; The import from Malthus; Self- preservation and the struggle for existence; Impact of Darwin and Malthus; 2 Natural selection and support-bargaining; Competition and cooperation in group support-bargaining; Situation and interest; Violence and rigid groups; Natural selection and the support convention; The support convention in practice

The great divide: natural selection and cultural evolutionClosing the divide; 3 Power and hierarchy; Power in social groups; Individuals, groups and the pursuit of power; Leadership and hierarchies; Democracy and support-bargaining; Money and the assembly of support; Individuals and groups: the Schumpeter theory of democracy; Support and the pursuit of power; 4 Power elites and pluralist democracy; Academic accounts of power; The power of elite groups: Mills and Lukes; Pluralist democracy: Dahl in New Haven; Support-bargaining in New Haven; Theory making and the accumulation of support

5 Sexual selection and kinshipStability, security and marriage; Culture, support-bargaining and mate selection; Kin groups and support-bargaining; 6 The evidence for support-bargaining; Laboratory experiments consistent with support-bargaining; The consistency of support-bargaining; Evidence for support-bargaining from introspection; 7 Theory making and social Darwinism; Intellectual support-bargaining; Social progress as natural selection; Racism, imperialism and militarism; Militarism and self-preservation; The cooperative approach on Darwinian lines

Social theory and the rejection of DarwinThe status of theories; Support-bargaining and social Darwinism; Influence of natural selection; 8 Common theory and personification; Deity theory and secular rule; Deity theory and common theory; Development of uncommon theory; Common theory and language; Agency and personification; Lamarck and human agency; Personification and altruism in sociobiology; Depersonalisation and reason; World view and common theory; 9 Money-bargaining and the evolution of economies; Companies in money-bargaining; Evolutionary economic theory; The evolution of economies

10 Social symmetriesThe significance of symmetry; The perception of symmetry; Symmetry and common theory; The symmetry of ceremony; Balance in social symmetry; Consumer choice and symmetry; The efficiency of symmetry; Conclusion; 11 Conclusion; Individual and group; Support-bargaining as ideology; Determinism and social accountability; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-203-08122-6

1-283-84434-6

1-136-17233-5

9780203081228

OCLC:

821176192