How humans cooperate: confronting the challenge of collective action

Includes bibliographical references and index.A new approach to investigating human cooperation developed from the vantage point of an 'anthropological imagination.' Drawing the discipline's broad understanding of humans in biological, social, and cultural dimensions, and across a wide range of temporal, spatial, and cultural variation.--Provided by publisher.What does evolutionary psychology tell us about human cooperation? -- The path to cooperation through collective action and institutions -- Anthropology: the missing voice in the conversation about cooperation -- The contingent cooperator as seen from the perspectives of neurobiology and bioevolution -- Cooperation or competition in the marketplace? -- On the need to rethink theories of state formation and how collective action theory will help -- Cooperation in state-building?: An investigation of collective action before and after the rise of modern democracies -- Center and hinterland under conditions of collective action -- Collective action and the shaping of cities and their neighborhoods -- The cultural process of cooperation -- The causes and consequences of collective action -- Final thoughts: insights gained from an expanded collective