Fair Play

Is the human quality of fairness in our genome, or is it a social construct?  The study concludes the latter — it found  a correlation between fairness and market integration.  Note that the original article includes a graph not reproduced here.  From the Mar 18th, 2010 issue of The Economist:

The origins of selflessness

Fair play

It is not so much that cheats don’t prosper, but that prosperity does not cheat