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WiM039 - The Geoffrey Miller Series | Episode 2 | Sexual Selection for Moral Virtues

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The Morality of the Market Participant

In pre-history, when people went to a market town for the first time, there were hundreds of strangers from all different farms miles away. Suddenly you're in a kind of ethical panopticon where every bis judging everybody else and giving continual feedback. Economic historians like didri mc lawsky have written about how this kind of favors the bourgeois virtues.

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