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Khanafiah, Deni; Situngkir, Hokky - EconWPA - 2004

innovation. Our effort is trying to view the evolution of this artifact from memetics. By constructing a phylomemetic tree based …Cellular phone is one of the most developing technological artifacts today. The evolution occurs through random … algorithm to construct cellphone phylomemetic tree. Therefore we compare with the innovation tree, which is based on serial …

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De-industrialisation III

Stanners, Walter - EconWPA - 2002

The author of this note takes it as self evident that prosperity and the provision of "things" (buildings, roads, furniture, furnishings, clothes, machines and equipment of all sorts) go together. The way people generally speak and act is in line with this view. If this is so, domestic...

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CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE & PRODUCTIVE KNOWLEDGE (Technology)

Gürak, H. - EconWPA - 2005

stated that “Capitalist system incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure FROM WITHIN”. What are those dynamic forces … of human mind. In other words, knowledge on production, i.e., technology or productive knowledge provides the premises … and gives occasion to a dynamic and uninterrupted growth process, but technology itself is the product of mental labor …

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Technological change: An analysis of the diffusion and implications of e-business technologies

Koellinger, Philipp - EconWPA - 2005

mechanism of technological development. Hence, the probability to adopt any e- business technology is hypothesized to be an … 2002. In addition, the adoption of new e-business technologies by firms creates opportunities to conduct innovation, either … and the implications of e-business technologies. The diffusion of e-business technologies among firms is regarded as part …

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Population Games

Blume, Lawrence - EconWPA - 1996

Population games are stochastic processes which explicitly model Nash's (1950) mass action interpretation of Nash equilibrium. The mass action interpretation envisions a population of players for each position in the game, and that players are randomly matched for play. The hope is that the...

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From Bounded Rationality to Behavioral Economics

Egidi, Massimo - EconWPA - 2005

Kauffman’s Nk model, showing that if evolution it is based on trial-and-error search process, it leads generally to sub …

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The nature of human altruism

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - EconWPA - 2004

towards the importance of both theories of cultural evolution as well as gene–culture co-evolution. …

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Economics in a Family Way

Bergstrom, Theodore C. - EconWPA - 1995

human preferences and relate these ideas to theories of the cultural evolution of preferences. The next section takes an …

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The Role and Evolution of Central Authorities

Frijters, Paul; Tieman, Alexander F. - EconWPA - 1999

In this paper we argue that authorities aid cooperation by means of direct coordination or the enforcement of pre-commitment devices such as contract laws.Credible threats of violence allow this role. In a local interaction model, an authority forms if mutually connected individuals with...

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Strong Reciprocity, Human Cooperation and the Enforcement of Social Norms

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - EconWPA - 2003

theories and theories of cultural evolution are consistent with strong reciprocity. …

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