Envy Reduction in Economics : Equity, Altruism and 'Cultural Group Selection'

This paper develops a set of arguments for envy reduction within economics and tries to show that, if humans possess a psychological bias towards accepting the group social norms, such - for example - imitating the common behavior, which may also happen to be the most successful in solving the puzzle of decision making, then cultural evolutionary processes will favour and stabilize cooperation. Then, the article discusses how, once cooperation is stable, cultural group selection is likely to spread group-beneficial cultural traits - such as altruism considered here as the opposite of envy - through structured populations