The Unselfish Gene

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The Unselfish Gene

Yochai Benkler | HBR | 4 July 2011

Superb essay challenging notion of innate human selfishness and the rational actor theory. Biology, sociology, experimental economics, political science. All contain powerful ideas about natural cooperation Read full article

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