Group Selection: The quest for social preferences

Marcus Salomonsson ()
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Marcus Salomonsson: Dept. of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Postal: Stockholm School of Economics, P.O. Box 6501, SE-113 83 Stockholm, Sweden

No 712, SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance from Stockholm School of Economics

Abstract: This paper surveys the literature on group selection. I describe the early contributions and the group selection controversy. I also describe the main approaches to group selection in the recent literature; fixation, assortative group formation, and reproductive externalities.

Keywords: Altruism; spite; externalities; conformity; fixation; signalling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C70 D03 D62 D64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2009-03-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-cdm, nep-evo, nep-gth, nep-hpe, nep-net and nep-soc
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