ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explains that fictions can live, metabolize, and grow, respond to stimuli, and sometimes think. But Hermod, Lug, Chibchakun, Ayizan, Yacatecuhtli, Hebrew Metatron, Or Benzai-ten, or Volos of the Slavs, Or Ekahau or Eshu, all would work. It examines how pluralistic turn in economic thinking bears upon the venerable social-theoretical division of cooperative activity into separate spheres of impersonal Gesellschaft and ethically thick Gemeinschaft. The book facilitates critical exchange among economists, philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, and other social theorists by exploring the overlapping notions of cooperation, rationality, identity, reciprocity, trust, and exchange that emerge from multiple analytic traditions within and across their respective disciplines.
