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WiM040 - The Geoffrey Miller Series | Episode 3 | Game Theory All the Way Down

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The Importance of Moral Virtues in the Market Economy

Fascinating, a sort of boot strapping reciprocal altruism all the way up into the market economy. And if you start favoring that in your male an kind of as a by product, you're selecting males who also have a sense of honor and integrity when they're dealing with their friends and allies and customersan the woater market,. So you get all these kind of generalized social benefits out of this kind of sexual selection for moral virtues I think. That was actually crucial in the rise of human civilizations nd unmarked economies in technology.

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