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Beyond "bounded rationality" : behaviours and learning in complex evolving worlds
Dosi, Giovanni; Faillo, Marco; Marengo, Luigi - 2018
-defined knowledge of our preferences, all possible states of the world, all possible actions (our "technologies"), the mappings among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894288
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The agenda for evolutionary economics : results, dead ends, and challenges ahead
Dosi, Giovanni - 2022
innovating with respect to their understandings of the world in which they operate, the technologies they master, their … technological evolution; (ii) The theory of the firm in evolving environments; (iii) The formalization of learning processes; (iv …) the theory of production; (v) consumption patterns; (vi) economic interactions and the working of markets; and, (vii) The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013402021
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The role of comparative advantage, endowments and technology in structural transformation
Dosi, Giovanni; Tranchero, Matteo - 2019
In this chapter we discuss the role of natural resources and endowment structures on structural change. Departing from theories of trade that stress specialization according to one's comparative advantages as the key route to development, we articulate an alternative point of view on the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012215151
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Endogenous growth and global divergence in a multi-country agent-based model
Dosi, Giovanni; Roventini, Andrea; Russo, Emanuele - 2017
In this paper we present a multi-country, multi-industry agent-based model investigating the different growth patterns of interdependent economies. Each country features a Schumpeterian engine of endogenous technical change which interacts with Keyneasian/Kaldorian demand generation mechanisms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763040
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Endogenous growth and global divergence in a multi-country agent-based model
Dosi, Giovanni; Roventini, Andrea; Russo, Emanuele - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806187
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The economics of human development and social mobility
Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014
This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252655
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Gender bias and the female brain drain
Bang, James T.; Mitra, Aniruddha - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003991108
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Accounting for heterogeneity, diversity and general equilibrium in evaluating social programs
Heckman, James J. - 1999
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The dynamics of educational attainment for blacks, hispanics, and whites
Cameron, Stephen V.; Heckman, James J. - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001409641
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The performance of performance standards
Heckman, James J.; Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2002
This paper examines the performance of the JTPA performance system, a widely emulated model for inducing efficiency in government organizations. We present a model of how performance incentives may distort bureaucratic decisions. We define cream skimming within the model. Two major empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412037