The book is intended for use in graduate-level microeconomics courses,
as well as courses in institutional and evolutionary economics and for-
mal modeling courses in sociology, anthropology, and political science.
It could also be used in advanced undergraduate courses in these sub-
jects.  General  readers  may  find  the  book  a  useful  introduction  to  the
emerging paradigm of evolutionary social science. Little previous expo-
sure to economics is presumed. The mathematical techniques are limited
to what is generally covered in a two-semester calculus sequence.