NDLI: Reciprocity and economics in historical perspective

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Wilson, David Dixon, William
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	There is now compelling evidence to suggest that people respond in kind to helpful or hostile behaviour, so much so that some have been led to suggest that the subject of economic behaviour is not so much homo economicus as homo reciprocans. This recent interest in the phenomenon of reciprocity is part of a wider (and very welcome) rethinking of the basic attributes of the economic actor. On the basis of this recent work, economic theorising has moved some distance from the traditional modern-economic approach—an approach that simply assumes a strategically rational, egotistical actor and develops elaborate theorems therefrom—and towards a richer, more complex conceptualisation of the economic actor and her acts. On revisiting a remarkably similar debate that took place some 250 years earlier, however, we wonder whether this re-conceptualisation has yet moved far enough.
Starting Page	65
Ending Page	76
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	18651704
Journal	International Review of Economics
Volume Number	55
Issue Number	1-2
e-ISSN	18634613
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2008-01-11
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Reciprocity Economics Historical perspective Economics general
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Economics, Econometrics and Finance

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Reciprocity and economics in historical perspective