Are human beings, as consultants, researchers, and the authors of business books have thought for years, fundamentally motivated by self interest? Or is there a deeper cooperative instinct that drives human beings to work?
Those are the questions that fuel Yochai Benkler‘s investigation in The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest.
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2011/09/22/rb-183-the-cooperation/
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Yochai Benkler interviewed on the Invisible Hand podcast in 2006.
In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. Eric Fortune of Johns Hopkins University reveals how our brains are wired for cooperation.
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Rewards, not punishments, promote more cooperation; similar sensitivity by dogs and infants to human communication signals suggests dogs’ evolutionary novel skill; on the origin of cooperation; and more. (39 minutes)