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Taylor & Francis Support-Bargaining Economics and Society A Social Species 2012 Edition by Patrick Spread
Support-Bargaining, Economics and Society links support-bargaining to Darwin's theory of natural selection and traces the implications of support-bargaining and money-bargaining across society. It provides a wholly different account of the functioning of human societies from anything that has gone before. Social scientists, ever since there have been such people, have missed the crucial human characteristic - the propensity to seek support - that has given rise to group formation and the evolution of human society. Table of contents :- 1/ The Problem with Natural Selection Chapter 2. Natural Selection and Support-Bargaining 3. Power and Hierarchy Chapter 4. Power Elites and Pluralist Democracy 5. Sexual Selection and Kinship 6. The Evidence for Support-Bargaining 7. Theory Making and Social Darwinism Chapter 8. Common Theory and Personification Chapter 9: Money-Bargaining and the Evolution of Economies 10. Social Symmetries 11. Conclusion