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Coalitional rivalry may hurt in economic exchanges such as trade but help in war

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2018

Rose McDermott
Rose McDermott*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912. [email protected]://watson.brown.edu/people/faculty/mcdermott
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Abstract

Economic exchange constitutes the basis of many, but not all, aspects of human cooperation. The incentives overlap with, but remain distinct in important ways, from other fundamental aspects of cooperation, including the organization of collective violence for combat. The specific alignment of sometimes-conflicting goals helps inform the construction of political ideology.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e180
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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