The times they are a changin : the effect of institutional change on cooperative behaviour at 26,000 ft over sixty years
By: Savage, David A
Title By: Torgler, Benno
Material type: BookSeries: Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2015.Description: viii, 79 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 978-1137525147Subject(s): Mountaineering -- Social aspects -- Everest, Mount | Economics -- Sociological aspects | Organizational behavior
Summary:
This narrative and empirical analysis investigates Hilary's claim that in his day they would not have left a man behind to die. The authors examine over 60 years of Himalayan climbing data and stories in order to test the changes in cooperation in this extreme life and death environment.
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This narrative and empirical analysis investigates Hilary's claim that in his day they would not have left a man behind to die. The authors examine over 60 years of Himalayan climbing data and stories in order to test the changes in cooperation in this extreme life and death environment.
Introduction -- Historical development -- Commercialization -- Data and methodology -- Analysis -- Alternative explanations -- Conclusions.