The Mutual Gains from Trade Moderate the Parent-Offspring Conflict - Updated

Sergio Da Silva

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This essay asserts that the mutual gains accruing from the exchange of goods between siblings can moderate the famous parent-offspring conflict, an issue of interest in evolutionary biology. The rationale combines basic concepts of economics and behavioral genetics, and fills in the gaps of standard economic theory by justifying why trade, ultimately a cooperative endeavor, is possible from egoistic utility maximizers.

Keywords: Parent-offspring conflict; Gains from trade; Economic methodology; Philosophical foundations of economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Published in American International Journal of Social Science 5.3(2014): pp. 127-134

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