"Where Do Pro-Social Institutions Come From?  How Do Countries ’Get to Denmark‘?"

"Where do ‘good’ or pro-social institutions come from?  Why does the capacity for collective action and cooperative behaviour vary so much across the world today?  

"How do some populations transcend tribalism to form a civil society?  

"How have some societies gone beyond personal relations and customary rules to impersonal exchange and anonymous institutions? 

"In short, how do you “get to Denmark”? I first take a look at what the “cultural evolution” literature has to say about it. 

"I then turn to the intersection of economics and differential psychology."

http://evonomics.com/pro-social-institutions-come/