The Emergence of Norms

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A brilliant, timeless, and pathbreaking book, one of the classics of the last hundred years of social theory. Ullmann-Margalit helps explain what makes social organization possible--and why inequality arises and persists. Indispensable reading, full of implications for economics, philosophy, law, psychology, and sociology--and public policy as well. * Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard University * '[Ullmann-Margalit's] lucidly presented thesis will be of interest to moral and political philosophers ... clear and detailed at every point.' * G. R. Grice, Philosophy * 'a book with arguments and ideas deserving of close attention from moral philosophers, political philosophers, philosophers of social science, and the social scientists themselves ... a sophisticated and sustained argument.' * Lanning Sowden, The Philosophical Quarterly *