Group Selection: The quest for social preferences

This paper surveys the literature on group selection. I describe the early contributions and the group selection controversy. I also describe the main approaches to group selection in the recent literature; fixation, assortative group formation, and reproductive externalities.

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Year of publication:	2009-03-06
Authors:	Salomonsson, Marcus
Institutions:	Economics Institute for Research (SIR), Handelshögskolan i Stockholm
Subject:	Altruism \| spite \| externalities \| conformity \| fixation \| signalling

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	The text is part of a series SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance Number 712 22 pages
Classification:	C70 - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory. General ; D03 - Behavioral Economics; Underlying Principles ; D62 - Externalities ; D64 - Altruism
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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