When our friend Tara was in town recently she did a video interview with me about Gift Economies and Akoha.

She recently posted the video on the SpreadLoveProject website.

The reference made part way through the interview when talking about the role of generosity in evolution is the great book The Generous Man - How Helping Others is the Sexiest Thing You Can Do by Tor Norretranders.

In the book he introduces the novel concept that generosity, creativity and cooperativeness serve a singular evolutionary purpose of making us sexier.

If you’d like to hear an excerpt of Tor Norretranders speaking about game theory, altruism and economics here is a short audio clip from his EuroOSCON keynote.