Dr. Adrian Pabst</a> is a lecturer in politics at the University of Kent. He is the author of Metaphysics: The Creation of Hierarchy</a> and the editor of The Crisis of Global Capitalism</a>.
Game theory or gift society? The narcissistic vision of the homo oeconomicus has failed to acknowledge long-documented evidence of the primacy of cooperation. In this Friday essay, Adrian Pabst explores the liberating potential of an anthropologically informed economics for the age of austerity.