[extropy-chat] Effective relationships

[Hughes, James J.]

> If another form of organisation was more stable or produced 
> more happiness it would likely be fairly prevalent. 

I tried to grapple with the instability of non-monogamous subcultures
within a rational choice framework in this paper:

"Monogamy as a Prisoners Dilemma: Non-Monogamy as a Collective Action
Problem" (1990)
James J. Hughes Ph.D. 
http://www.changesurfer.com/Acad/Monogamy/Mono.html

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