Umfang:
1 online resource (263 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415323352
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9780203356494
Serie:
Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Series
Inhalt:
The autonomy of individuals their view of the world in the past, had led to the problem that socially acceptable decisions could not be made in the absence of unanimity. This book addresses this shortcoming
Anmerkung:
Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Ilustrations -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The need for a new approach to social welfare -- 1.2 From utilitarianism to positivist subjectivism -- 1.3 Preference orderings and social choice -- 1.4 Justice, empathy, and the 'veil of ignorance' -- 1.5 A positive theory of social welfare -- Part I Evolution, behavior, and learning -- 2 Evolution and learning-the rise of behavioral plasticity -- 2.1 Learning and man's success in evolution -- 2.2 From inherited to learned behavior -- 2.3 Behaviorist approaches to learning -- 2.4 Restrictions on the potentiality to learn -- 2.5 Cognitive science and learning -- 3 Motivation and well-being -- 3.1 Drives and needs -- 3.2 Drives and instincts -- 3.3 Fear and learned drives -- 3.4 Drives and incentives: push versus pull -- 3.5 Drive for cognition-what makes us think? -- 3.6 Drives and desires-an instrumental relationship -- 3.7 Habits-between drives and desires -- 3.8 Reason and drives-the empiricist philosopher's view -- 3.9 Emotions-amplifiers of drives and origin of commitment -- 3.10 Conflicts between motivations -- 3.11 Motivation and hedonism -- 3.12 Motivation and well-being-a conclusion -- 4 Propagation of behavioral determinants -- 4.1 Natural selection and genes -- 4.2 Genes as replicators -- 4.3 Natural selection and adaptation -- 4.4 Learning and memes -- 4.5 Sociobiology and the relevance of memes -- 4.6 The functioning of memes in evolution -- (a) How do memes work? -- (b) How do memes evolve? -- (c) How do memes and genes relate to each other? -- (d) What about the copying fidelity of memes? -- (e) Is the evolution of memes a Lamarckian process? -- (f) The variation of memes-a 'blind' process? -- (g) How does the selective retention of memes proceed? -- (h) The meme-a comprehensive definition
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4.7 Two kinds of memes -- 4.8 Three kinds of replicators -- 4.9 The interaction of replicators -- 4.10 Conclusion -- Part II Coordination, cooperation, and social welfare -- 5 The significance of the group for the evolution of order and cooperation -- 5.1 Coordination -- 5.2 Cooperation -- 5.3 Altruism and group-level selection in biology -- 5.4 Rationality and commitment in economics -- 5.5 Cooperation and social learning -- (a) Habitual cooperation and retaliation -- (b) Intrinsic preferences for fair behavior -- (c) Signaling of binding commitment -- 5.6 Cooperation and economic institutions -- 5.7 Group selection and 'spontaneous order' -- 5.8 The functional principles of social group selection -- 5.9 Fitness in the context of social group selection -- 5.10 Social group selection-some evidence -- 5.11 Adaptiveness of social group selection -- 5.12 Conclusions -- 6 Welfare and evolution -- 6.1 Cardinal utility and interpersonal comparability -- 6.2 Interpersonal comparison-empathy and moral principles -- 6.3 Social welfare versus individual well-being -- 6.4 Welfare comparison across cultures?-The role of subjective well-being -- 6.5 The evolution of welfare -- 6.6 The normative approach to meta-criteria of welfare -- 6.7 Conclusions -- 7 Conclusions -- Notes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Evolution and learning-the rise of behavioral plasticity -- 3 Motivation and well-being -- 4 Propagation of behavioral determinants -- 5 The significance of the group for the evolution of order and cooperation -- 6 Welfare and evolution -- References -- INDEX
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Sartorius, Christian An Evolutionary Approach to Social Welfare Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2003 ISBN 9780415323352
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
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