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The continuing evolution of ultrasocial economic organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2016

Joshua C. Farley
Joshua C. Farley*
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Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405. jfarley@uvm.edu www.uvm.edu/~jfarley
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Abstract

Ultrasociality, as expressed in agricultural, monetary, and fossil fuel economies, has spurred exponential growth in population and in resource use that now threaten civilization. These threats take the form of prisoner's dilemmas. Avoiding collapse requires more cooperative economic organization that must be informed by knowledge of human behavior and cultural evolution. The evolution of a cooperative information economy is one possibility.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e97
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