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Markets, Religion, Community Size and the Evolution of Fairness? Not really
2023-03-07
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<p>An influential theory of human fairness has suggested that norms of equity evolved as community sizes grew, markets and institutions stabilized and world religions came about. The theory assumes that humans predominantly interacted with kin in the evolutionary past, lived in genetically related groups and did not have formal norms of cooperation. In this article I present anthropological evidence to the contrar...
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- 3cd7114b-1cc3-53f8-9536-df929efac7b1
- DOI
- 10.31234/osf.io/umeh3