The virtue of human universals and cooperation: a review essay of Matt Ridley's The Origins of Virtue

✍ Scribed by Lívia Markóczy; Jeff Goldberg

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 142 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0143-6570
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1468(199708)18:5<399::aid-mde836>3.0.co;2-h

✦ Synopsis

In reviewing Matt Ridley's The Origins of Virtue we do ®ve things. (1) We discuss and challenge the basic assumptions of the Standard Social Sciences Model which permeates management scholarship. (2) We present some alternatives to this model, particularly evolutionary psychology. (3) We look at how these alternatives provide a framework for understanding cooperation. ( ) We enumerate some of the dif®culties (both real and imaginary) with evolutionary psychology. ( ) Finally, we suggest that management scholars work more closely with scholars from the many other disciplines that are developing solid theories of cooperation.