Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. 1 Introduction 3
5. 2 What Does Evolutionary Psychology Tell Us about Human Cooperation? 9
6. 3 The Path to Cooperation through Collective Action and Institutions 29
7. 4 Anthropology 45
8. 5 The Contingent Cooperator as Seen from the Perspectives of Neurobiology and Bioevolution 57
9. 6 Cooperation or Competition in the Marketplace? 69
10. 7 On the Need to Rethink Theories of State Formation and How Collective Action Theory Will Help 99
11. 8 Cooperation in State-Building? 115
12. 9 Center and Hinterland under Conditions of Collective Action 159
13. 10 Collective Action and the Shaping of Cities and Their Neighborhoods 165
14. 11 The Cultural Process of Cooperation 191
15. 12 The Causes and Consequences of Collective Action 245
16. 13 Final Thoughts 283
17. Bibliographic Essays 293
18. Appendix A 331
19. Appendix B 333
20. References 347
21. Index 411