Cooperation: Beyond the Age of Competition

by Allan Combs

In an increasingly interdependent world where once antagonishtc societies and economies now exist within a global network, theneed to foster and maintain cooperation has never been more vital. Cooperation explores an extraordinary growing awareness of the centrality of cooperation from the perspectives of a variety of disciplines, including biology, ecoscience, psychology, political science, business and economics. The essays question the age-old maxim that our existence is dependent on, and even prospers via competition, and offer keen insight into the far-reaching challenges of this fascinating, uncharted period in world history.

248 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Allan Combs is a consciousness researcher, neuropsychologist, and systems theorist. He considers his most significant work to be the development of a developmental/evolutionary model of the mind using concepts from systems science. Much of this was accomplished in collaboration with his friend and colleague Stanley Krippner. He is most widely known, however, for his collaboration with Ken Wilber on the Wilber-Combs lattice.