Costly Signaling in Ancient Chinese Narratives.
Seemingly reckless, wasteful, or self-harming actions depicted in narrative sources are embedded in the philosophical and political discourse of Warring States and early imperial China (around the third to the first century bce). Signaling theory unveils the underlying rationality of many such acts...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Interdisciplinary History Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 147 - 180 |
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