I’m going to correct Hans a bit here by saying that human cooperation is the res

I’m going to correct Hans a bit here by saying that human cooperation is the result of these properties:

1) the differences in abilities among men.

2) the geographical distribution of nature-given factors of production.

3) the local structure of production: the division of knowledge and labor.

4) the local structure of the family and inheritance rights.

5) the distribution of property rights between the individual, family, group and the commons.

6) the degree of suppression of, and intolerance for, free riding both in and out of family.

7) calculative, cooperative technology available for economic signaling and coordination. (objective truth, numbers, money, prices, interest, writing, contract, and accounting).

8) The use of formal institutions to perpetuate these constraints.

9) The competition from groups with alternate structures of production, family, inheritance, property rights, free riding, cooperative technologies, and formal institutions.

10) The recognition of these facts. (I question whether this last one is true.)