The Evolution of Cooperation, Robert Axelrod
Background information about the author and the book
Robert Axelrod is an American political scientist currently teaching Public Policies and Political Sciences at the University of Michigan, where he is the Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding. After graduating in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, he studied at Yale University, where he obtained a MBA and a PhD in Political Science. Axelrod has received countless awards and honours, such as membership in the National Academy of Sciences and the National Medal of Science, the United States’ “highest honor for scientific achievement and leadership”.
He is best known for The Evolution of Cooperation, an interdisciplinary work on how cooperation can emerge and persist in a predominantly …show more content…
The narration, written from the author’s point of view in a simple but precise and clear style, makes the reasoning accessible to a wide audience ranging from biologists and social scientists, organisations and nations, to simply interestested amateurs. The ideas are organised topically, and take a progressive approach. What’s especially interesting about cooperation theory is that it not only affects every one of us in our daily choices, but also raises concerns relevant on a global scale, such as arms race, nuclear proliferation, and crisis management. The argumentation is in fact made especially convincing by quantitative and qualitative data, as well as diverse examples to which historians, politicians, and biologists alike can relate: WW1 trench warfare, US-USSR relations, birds and bacteria,
Background information about the author and the book
Robert Axelrod is an American political scientist currently teaching Public Policies and Political Sciences at the University of Michigan, where he is the Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding. After graduating in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, he studied at Yale University, where he obtained a MBA and a PhD in Political Science. Axelrod has received countless awards and honours, such as membership in the National Academy of Sciences and the National Medal of Science, the United States’ “highest honor for scientific achievement and leadership”.
He is best known for The Evolution of Cooperation, an interdisciplinary work on how cooperation can emerge and persist in a predominantly …show more content…
The narration, written from the author’s point of view in a simple but precise and clear style, makes the reasoning accessible to a wide audience ranging from biologists and social scientists, organisations and nations, to simply interestested amateurs. The ideas are organised topically, and take a progressive approach. What’s especially interesting about cooperation theory is that it not only affects every one of us in our daily choices, but also raises concerns relevant on a global scale, such as arms race, nuclear proliferation, and crisis management. The argumentation is in fact made especially convincing by quantitative and qualitative data, as well as diverse examples to which historians, politicians, and biologists alike can relate: WW1 trench warfare, US-USSR relations, birds and bacteria,