Wright R., Nonzero. history, evolution and human cooperation — 2000
Аннотация: In a book sure to stir argument for years to come, Robert Wright challenges the conventional view that biological evolution and human history are aimless. Ingeniously employing game theory - the logic of 'zero-sum' and 'non-zero-sum' games - Wright isolates the impetus behind life's basic direction: the impetus that created complex, intelligent animals via biological evolution and then, via cultural evolution, pushed the human species towards deeper and vaster social complexity. In this view, the coming of today's interdependent global society was 'on the cards' - not quite inevitable, perhaps, but, as Wright puts it, 'so probable as to inspire wonder'. So probable, indeed, as to suggest a higher purpose.
