Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/56209 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance No. 712
Publisher: 
Stockholm School of Economics, The Economic Research Institute (EFI), Stockholm
Abstract: 
This paper surveys the literature on group selection. I describe the early contributions and the group selection controversy. I also describe the main approaches to group selection in the recent literature; fixation, assortative group formation, and reproductive externalities.
Subjects: 
Altruism
spite
externalities
conformity
fixation
signalling
JEL: 
C70
D03
D62
D64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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