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The grammar of society: the nature and dynamics of social norms

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Cambridge University Press 2006Description: xvi, 260 pISBN:
  • 9780521574907
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306 B4G7
Summary: 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. (http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/political-philosophy/grammar-society-nature-and-dynamics-social-norms)
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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.
(http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/political-philosophy/grammar-society-nature-and-dynamics-social-norms)

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