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The paper critically discusses the issue of rationality and choices in economics in both the behavioural and evolutionary approaches. Our study aims, on the one hand, to highlight the scientific contributions of psychology in economics, since psychology, and with it the theoretical approach of...
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A new survey shows scientists consider the proliferation of intellectual property protectionto have a strongly negative effect on research.
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necessary nor sufficient to guarantee that animal behavior is biologically adaptive. To illustrate that biological adaptiveness … determining whether a particular behavior is biologically adaptive. Additionally, Kacelnik et al call into question what has been … reported in the animal behavior literature as preference reversals, such as risk attitudes among wild rufous hummingbirds or …
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thinking, I also discuss how economics fails to ground itself in the underlying knowledge provided by biology. I also argue … that economists need to redirect their conventional approach to study group behavior. Current macroeconomics is … reductionist while the route followed by biology, physics, and chemistry was to resort to a different approach when focusing on …
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This paper presents the milestones of the Green Revolution, outlining its role in the development of today's sustainable and biotechnological agriculture, as well as Romanian contribution. In order to do this we used the material found in papers and books on the research in agriculture from the...
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The concept of “bioeconomy” or “green economy” is currently highly debated because it is considered to be essential for the future of the world economy. This concept seeks to find both practical solutions applicable in international affairs development environment and long-term...
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I test Bates' view that trade across ecological divides promoted the development of states in pre-colonial Africa. My main result is that sub-Saharan societies in ecologically diverse environments had more centralized pre-colonial states. I use spatial variation in rainfall to control for...
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international order relied on the respect of the human rights and the ecology. …
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Money is being portrayed as temporal access to energy and a new methodical approach to the energetics of the human economy is introduced.The economic evolution of world system energetics is put into the historical focus of all global monetary civilization, reaching back to Sumerian city...
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. Additionally, according to White’s test we identify than standard normal distribution is better then Student-t. At the same time … our forecast of volatility using MS GARCH with standard normal distribution does not work the right way. In other words …
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