The Biological Bases of Economic Behaviour : A Concise Introduction.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- 1 The Evolution of Economic Behaviour -- Evolution by natural selection -- Life history strategy -- Kith and kin -- Reciprocal altruism -- Cultural evolution -- Tool use and intelligence -- Human evolution -- Recent genetic changes -- Human cultural evolution -- The Neolithic revolution -- Forms of exchange -- Points to remember -- 2 The Economic Behaviour of the Individual -- A biological approach -- The animal as an economic consumer -- The supermarket analogy -- Time and energy budgets in animals -- Animal and human economics -- Problems with microeconomics -- Specific hungers -- Points to remember -- 3 Behavioural Economics -- The experimental situation -- The sterile environment -- The captive animal -- The real world -- Animals in the real world -- Humans in the real world -- Hoarding and caching -- The rationality muddle -- Rational choice theory -- Biological rationality -- Points to remember -- 4 The Biological Bases of Decision-Making -- Decisions -- Recapitulation -- The biological view -- Functional aspects of decision-making -- Trade-off -- "Voluntary" decisions -- Introspection -- The teleological imperative -- Whither Homo economicus? -- Points to remember -- Glossary -- Notes -- Index.

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