For the Greater Good of All [electronic resource] : Perspectives on Individualism, Society, and Leadership /
Forsyth, D.editor.
Hoyt, C.editor.
This volume draws on disciplines as different as Psychology, Anthropology, History and Biology to explain when and why individuals act to promote their own self-interest and when they sacrifice their own outcomes so that others can benefit.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Introduction: Perspectives on Individualism, Collectivism, and the Greater Good; One: What Do Capuchin Monkeys Tell Us about Cooperation?; Two: Empathy-Induced Altruism: Friend or Foe of the Common Good?; Three: Cultural Neuroscience and the Collective Good; Four: A Brief History of Individualism in American Thought; Five: Individualism, Collectivism, Leadership, and the Greater Good; Six: Big Man, Big Heart? The Political Role of Aggrandizers in Egalitarian and Transegalitarian Societies; Seven: Resisting Machiavelli: Reducing Collective Harm in Conflict
Eight: A Hippocratic Oath for PhilanthropistsNine: Working for the Common Good: Individuals and Groups Address the Challenges Facing the World; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This volume draws on disciplines as different as Psychology, Anthropology, History and Biology to explain when and why individuals act to promote their own self-interest and when they sacrifice their own outcomes so that others can benefit.
Leadership.
Organization.
Planning.
Management.
Operations research.
Decision making.
Economics.
Management science.
Business Strategy/Leadership.
Organization.
Management.
Operations Research/Decision Theory.
Economics, general.