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Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society

The Punisher's Brain

The Evolution of Judge and Jury

Hoffman, Morris B. (University of Colorado Boulder)

The Punisher's Brain

Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society

The Punisher's Brain

The Evolution of Judge and Jury

Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society: The Punisher's Brain

 

"Evolution built us to punish cheaters. Without that punishment instinct, we would never have been able to live in small groups, and would never have realized all the significant benefits that small-group living conferred, including mutual defense, cooperative hunting, property, divisions of labor and economies of scale.


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Beschrijving Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society: The Punisher's Brain

Using evidence and arguments from neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Morris B. Hoffman traces the development of deeply held legal principles throughout human evolution, describing how the drives to punish and forgive became codified into our legal system, and the responsibility for punishing and forgiving assigned to a judge and jury.


ISBN
9781107038066
Pagina's
368
Verschenen
Serie
Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society
NUR
820
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Cambridge University Press

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