In the social sciences norms are sometimes taken to play a key
explanatory role. Yet norms differ from group to group, from society to
society, and from species to species. How are norms formed and how do
they change? This 'state-of-the-art' collection of essays presents some
of the best contemporary research into the dynamic processes underlying
the formation, maintenance, metamorphosis and dissolution of norms. The
volume combines formal modelling with more traditional analysis, and
considers biological and cultural evolution, individual learning, and
rational deliberation. In filling a significant gap in the current
literature this volume will be of particular interest to economists,
political scientists and sociologists, in addition to philosophers of
the social sciences.