response to changes in social institutions and that such changes may be central to the process of
economic and societal change—in the degree and persistence of group inequality, the tenacity of
hostilities between warring groups, the pressures on the European welfare state, to name just a
few. We look forward to seeing the new areas of research that the perspective of endogenous
preferences will open up.
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