Increased Affluence Explains the Emergence of Ascetic Wisdoms and Moralizing Religions

2014/12/11 by Nicolas Baumard, Alexandre Hyafil, Ian Morris +1 · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Asceticism #Biology #Buddhism #Demography #Ecology #Economic growth #Economics #Environmental ethics #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Language and cultural evolution #Law #Philosophy #Politics #Population #Prosperity #Sociology #Theology #World Systems and Global Transformations

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.10.063

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