Reciprocity and the Art of Behavioural Public Policy

by Adam Oliver

Book Overview

What motivates human behaviour? Drawing on literatures from anthropology to zoology, Oliver examines how we are motivated to give and take, rather than give or take. This book reviews the evolution of reciprocity as a motivator of behaviour, in terms of its observation in non-human species, in very young humans, and in societies that we can reasonably expect are similar to those in which our distant ancestors lived. The behavioural economic and social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108480209
• ISBN13: 9781108480208
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.2" x 6.2"