Evolutionary Origins of Markets

<p>Our elaborate market exchange system owes its existence not to our calculating brain or insatiable self-centeredness, but rather to our sophisticated and nuanced human sociality and to the inherent rationality built into our emotions. The modern economic system is helped a lot more than hindered by our innate social instincts that support our remarkable capacity for building formal and informal institutions. </p><p>The book integrates the growing body of experimental evidence on human nature scattered across a variety of disciplines from experimental economics to social neuroscience into a coherent and original narrative about the extent to which market (or impersonal exchange) relations are reflective of the basic human sociality that was originally adapted to a more tribal existence. </p><p>An accessible resource, this book will appeal to students of all areas of economics, including Behavioral Economics and Neuro-Economics, Microeconomics, and Political Economy. </p> <p>Introduction, <strong>Part I: Social Brain, </strong>Chapter 1: The Myth of The Dissociative Identities, Chapter 2: Why Wouldn’t Chimpanzees Wear Sunglasses While Playing Poker? <b>Part II: Economizing Brain, </b>Chapter 3: Cognitively Lazy, Chapter 4: Emotionally Smart, <b>Part III: Interactive Minds, </b>Chapter 5: Reciprocal brain, Chapter 6: Mind Reading, <b>Part IV: Key Innate Competencies, </b>Chapter 7: Emotional path to willpower, Chapter 8: Sapiens See, Sapiens Do (Monkey? Not So Much.), <b>Part V: Pursuit of Identities, Tribes, and Emotional Connections, </b>Chapter 9: Human Sociality in the Market, Epilogue, Index</p>