From The Family To The Workplace To The Marketplace, Every Facet Of Our Lives Is Shaped By Cooperative Interactions. Yet Everywhere We Look, We Are Confronted By Proof Of How Difficult Cooperation Can Be--snarled Traffic, Polarized Politics, Overexploited Resources, Social Problems That Go Ignored. The Benefits To Oneself Of A Free Ride On The Efforts Of Others Mean That Collective Goals Often Are Not Met. But Compared To Most Other Species, People Actually Cooperate A Great Deal. Why Is This? Meeting At Grand Central Brings Together Insights From Evolutionary Biology, Political Science, Economics, Anthropology, And Other Fields To Explain How The Interactions Between Our Evolved Selves And The Institutional Structures We Have Created Make Cooperation Possible. The Book Begins With A Look At The Ideas Of Mancur Olson And George Williams, Who Shifted The Question Of Why Cooperation Happens From An Emphasis On Group Benefits To Individual Costs. It Then Explores How These Ideas Have Influenced Our Thinking About Cooperation, Coordination, And Collective Action. The Book Persuasively Argues That Cooperation And Its Failures Are Best Explained By Evolutionary And Social Theories Working Together. Selection Sometimes Favors Cooperative Tendencies, While Institutions, Norms, And Incentives Encourage And Make Possible Actual Cooperation. Meeting At Grand Central Will Inspire Researchers From Different Disciplines And Intellectual Traditions To Share Ideas And Advance Our Understanding Of Cooperative Behavior In A World That Is More Complex Than Ever Before. Cooperation, Coordination, And Collective Action -- Adaptation: A Special And Onerous Concept -- The Logic Of Logic, And Beyond -- Cooperation And The Individual -- Cooperation And Organizations -- Meeting At Penn Station: Coordination Problems And Cooperation -- Cooperation Emergent -- Meeting At Grand Central. Lee Cronk And Beth L. Leech. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [207]-235) And Index.

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Lee Cronk and Beth L. Leech

Princeton University, Department of Art & Archaeology

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Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 2012

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Princeton, N.J, New Jersey, 2012

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A revolutionary approach to the study of cooperation that unites evolutionary biology and the social sciences
From the family to the workplace to the marketplace, every facet of our lives is shaped by cooperative interactions. Yet everywhere we look, we are confronted by proof of how difficult cooperation can be—snarled traffic, polarized politics, overexploited resources, social problems that go ignored. The benefits to oneself of a free ride on the efforts of others mean that collective goals often are not met. But compared to most other species, people actually cooperate a great deal. Why is this?
Meeting at Grand Central brings together insights from evolutionary biology, political science, economics, anthropology, and other fields to explain how the interactions between our evolved selves and the institutional structures we have created make cooperation possible. The book begins with a look at the ideas of Mancur Olson and George Williams, who shifted the question of why cooperation happens from an emphasis on group benefits to individual costs. It then explores how these ideas have influenced our thinking about cooperation, coordination, and collective action. The book persuasively argues that cooperation and its failures are best explained by evolutionary and social theories working together. Selection sometimes favors cooperative tendencies, while institutions, norms, and incentives encourage and make possible actual cooperation.
Meeting at Grand Central will inspire researchers from different disciplines and intellectual traditions to share ideas and advance our understanding of cooperative behavior in a world that is more complex than ever before.

From the family to the workplace to the marketplace, every facet of our lives is shaped by cooperative interactions. Yet everywhere we look, we are confronted by proof of how difficult cooperation can be—snarled traffic, polarized politics, overexploited resources, social problems that go ignored. The benefits to oneself of a free ride on the efforts of others mean that collective goals often are not met. But compared to most other species, people actually cooperate a great deal. Why is this? This book brings together insights from evolutionary biology, political science, economics, anthropology, and other fields to explain how the interactions between our evolved selves and the institutional structures we have created make cooperation possible. The book begins with a look at the ideas of Mancur Olson and George C. Williams, who shifted the question of why cooperation happens from an emphasis on group benefits to individual costs. It then explores how these ideas have influenced our thinking about cooperation, coordination, and collective action. It persuasively argues that cooperation and its failures are best explained by evolutionary and social theories working together. Selection sometimes favors cooperative tendencies, while institutions, norms, and incentives encourage and make possible actual cooperation. This book should inspire researchers from different disciplines and intellectual traditions to share ideas and advance our understanding of cooperative behavior in a world that is more complex than ever before.

"Meeting at Grand Central brings together insights from evolutionary biology, political science, economics, anthropology, and other fields to explain how the interactions between our evolved selves and the institutional structures we have created make cooperation possible. The book begins with a look at the ideas of Mancur Olson and George Williams, who shifted the question of why cooperation happens from an emphasis on group benefits to individual costs. It then explores how these ideas have influenced our thinking about cooperation, coordination, and collective action. The book persuasively argues that cooperation and its failures are best explained by evolutionary and social theories working together. Selection sometimes favors cooperative tendencies, while institutions, norms, and incentives encourage and make possible actual cooperation."--Publisher's website

Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Cooperation, Coordination, and Collective Action
Box 1.1: Experimental Economic Games
Chapter 2: Adaptation: A Special and Onerous Concept
Chapter 3: The Logic of Logic, and Beyond
Box 3.1: Types of Groups
Box 3.2: Types of Goods
Chapter 4: Cooperation and the Individual
Box 4.1: The Reciprocity Bandwagon
Box 4.2: The Prisoner's Dilemma Game
Chapter 5: Cooperation and Organizations
Chapter 6: Meeting at Penn Station: Coordination Problems and Cooperation
Box 6.1: Coordination Games
Chapter 7: Cooperation Emergent
Chapter 8: Meeting at Grand Central
Notes
References
Index

2023-08-24