How Altruism Self-Replicates and Affects the Commons

By Tovin Gordesky-Hooper   When a market economy is introduced into an area, the local population is incentivized to stop contributing to the commons because this economy predominantly rewards the production of goods for sale: “Under this fundamentally new economic order goods are bought and sold, not shared” (Johannes 1978, p. 356). The free-market economy read more How Altruism Self-Replicates and Affects the Commons