Brother Rubbish points me to a post at Counago and Spaves - worth a look. There's good stuff in the links on co-operation and free-riders, with references to the work of Mancur Olsen, and an interesting question: Is a free-rider a sociopath?
Sociopaths are "....incapable of cooperation with others beyond short-term exploitation.."
Ring any bells?
Brother Rubbish also posted this a few days ago on a tangential theme.
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Thanks for the link, Paulie. I'm slowly trying to draw together an idea of capitalism as institutionalized sociopathy: capitalist as parasite remaking society in his image, as it were.
I might get there one day. ;-)
John,
You're at an open door here. Keep pushing...
Homo economicus is a sociopath.
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