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The Economics of Rights, Co-operation and Welfare

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Authors:
  1. Robert Sugden

    1. University of East Anglia, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Spontaneous Order

    • Robert Sugden
    Pages 1-9

  3. Games

    • Robert Sugden
    Pages 10-35

  4. Coordination

    • Robert Sugden
    Pages 36-57

  5. Property

    • Robert Sugden
    Pages 58-90

  6. Possession

    • Robert Sugden
    Pages 91-107

  7. Reciprocity

    • Robert Sugden
    Pages 108-125

  8. Free Riders

    • Robert Sugden
    Pages 126-148

  9. Natural Law

    • Robert Sugden
    Pages 149-169

  10. Rights, Co-operation and Welfare

    • Robert Sugden
    Pages 170-182

  11. Afterword

    • Robert Sugden
    Pages 183-225

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 226-243
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About this book

This is a new edition - with a substantial new introduction - of a book which has had a significant impact on economics, philosophy and political science. Robert Sugden shows how conventions of property, mutual aid, and voluntary supply of public goods can evolve spontaneously out of the interactions of self-interested individuals, and can become moral norms. Sugden was among the first social scientists to use evolutionary game theory. His approach remains distinctive in emphasizing psychological and cultural notions of salience.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of East Anglia, UK

    Robert Sugden

About the author

ROBERT SUGDEN is Professor of Economics at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. His theoretical, experimental and philosophical work on social choice, choice under uncertainty, the foundations of decision and game theory, and the evolution of social conventions has been published in the leading journals of economics and philosophy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Economics of Rights, Co-operation and Welfare

  • Authors: Robert Sugden

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230536791

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-68239-5Published: 01 October 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-40018-8Published: 01 January 2005

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-53679-1Published: 01 October 2004

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 243

  • Topics: Microeconomics

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