人类是自然界中唯一可以在大规模群体中与非亲属成员合作的物种,这种独特现象引起了生物学、社会学、人类学、经济学等众多学科的关注,但是,迄今为止的经济学基本上是以“竞争”为主线的,合作却没有获得经济学应有的重视。近二十多年来,合作行为逐渐成为经济学研究的重点领域之一。其实,纵观人类经济思想史,我们可以发现,在经济学发展的历史长河中闪耀着关于合作行为研究的繁星点点,其思想光芒有力地推动了时代的进步和社会的发展,影响着人们生活的方方面面,有的至今依然影响深远,值得我们去回味、总结和借鉴。本文主要从经济思想史的高度对一些著名经济学家关于合作行为的思想进行总结和讨论.
Unlike any other species, humans cooperate with genetically unrelated individuals in large groups. The unique phenomenon has attracted many attentions of scholars in biology, sociology, anthropology, economics and other fields. In the last two decades, cooperative behavior has gradually become one of the prior areas of economics. In fact, we can see a lot of research about cooperative behavior in the history of economics, which impetus strongly the progress of the times and the development of society and affects people' s lives in all aspects, and some has still a far - reaching impact. So it is worth for us to pondering and summarizing these studies. In this paper, I mainly summarize and discuss the economic thought about cooperative behavior of a number of well - known economists.