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The Unselfish Gene

Date: July 1, 2011

Author: Prof. Yochai Benkler

QUOTE: Why is this deep-rooted belief about human selfishness beginning to change? To some extent, the answer is specific to evolutionary biology. But similar ideas challenging the notion that people are born selfish have surfaced in several other fields, such as psychology, sociology, political science, and experimental economics. Together, these ideas are tracing a new intellectual arc in the disciplines concerned with human action and motivation.

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Key People:

• Prof. Gary S. Becker Ph.D.
• Thomas Hobbes
• Prof. Iris Bohnet Ph.D.
• David Hume
• Prof. Thomas J. Bouchard Jr., Ph.D.
• Prof. Andrea McDowell Ph.D., Esq.
• Prof. Samuel Bowles Ph.D.
• Prof. Matt McGue Ph.D.
• Prof. Robert Boyd Ph.D.
• Dr. Martin A. Nowak
• Prof. Colin F. Camerer Ph.D.
• Prof. Elinor Ostrom Ph.D.
• Prof. Richard Dawkins
• Prof. Peter J. Richerson Ph.D.
• Prof. Ernst Fehr
• Prof. James Rilling Ph.D.
• Prof. James H. Fowler Ph.D.
• Prof. Giacomo Rizzolatti
• Prof. Bruno S. Frey
• Prof. Lee D. Ross Ph.D.
• Dr. Alan Greenspan
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Prof. J.B.S. Haldane
• Adam Smith
• Prof. Joe Henrich Ph.D.
• Mother Teresa

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• Encyclopedia Britannica
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• Microsoft Corporation
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• Abstract Principles
  • Control / Access / Permission
    • Cooperation / Coordination / Collaboration

• Philosophy & Religion
  • Philosophy: General
    • Ethics/Morals/Fairness/Justice (conceptual)
      • Ethics: Theoretical Approaches
        • Egoism/Selfishness

• Science & Technology
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• Social Sciences & Groups
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