Reciprocity in Human Societies : From Ancient Times to the Modern Welfare State by Mirkka Danielsbacka

Presenting new insights into reciprocity, this book combines Marcel Mauss's well-known gift theory with Barrington Moore's idea of mutual obligations linking rulers and the ruled. Teasing out the interrelatedness of these approaches,?Reciprocity in Human Societies?suggests that evolutionary psychology reveals a human tendency for reciprocity and collaboration, not only in a mutually cooperative way but also through increasing retributive moral emotions. The book?discusses various historical societies and the different models of the current welfare state-Nordic?(social democratic), conservative, and liberal- and the repercussions of the neoliberal policies of tax?havens, tax cuts, and austerity with a?cross-disciplinary approach that bridges evolutionary psychology, sociology, and social anthropology with history.
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