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Journal of Economic Literature

ISSN 0022-0515 (Print) | ISSN 2328-8175 (Online)

Foundations of Human Sociality: A Review Essay

  • Larry Samuelson
Journal of Economic Literature
vol. 43, no. 2, June 2005
(pp. 488–497)
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Abstract

This is a review article of Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies (Oxford University Press 2004) edited by Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, and Herbert Gintis.

Citation

Samuelson, Larry. 2005. "Foundations of Human Sociality: A Review Essay." Journal of Economic Literature, 43 (2): 488–497. DOI: 10.1257/0022051054661549

JEL Classification

  • D63 Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
  • O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
  • Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Social and Economic Stratification