Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedJoseph Henrich: belief
14 Dec 2016 Conversations with Tyler Joseph Henrich on WEIRD Societies and Life Among Two Strange Tribes (Live at Mason)
“I think the data is there. The question is why. One of the things I don’t think he takes into account sufficiently is that there could be long-run cultural differences between populations.”
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- Joseph Henrich
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- 14 Dec 2016
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…[Oded] Galor at Brown University, you probably know this work: there’s a number of papers arguing societies that have been producing agriculture for longer periods of time, they’re today much more cooperative. There’s something, if not quite permanent about that, something long-run, something enduring about that. Do you agree with that hypothesis? I think the data is there. The question is why. One of the things I don’t think he takes into account sufficiently is that there could be long-run cultural differences between populations. What he really means by “more cooperative” is that they’re better at doing state-level societies. Right. But if they play economic games with each other, they’ll share more. They’re less likely to take the whole pie.…
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