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Vicarious Learning And Socio-EconomicTransformation In Indian Trans-Himalaya
Chandrasekhar, K.; Bhaduri, Saradindu - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2005
Recently, it has been suggested that the process of economic development should ideally be viewed as a … aspects have only been inadequately addressed in development theory. This paperargues that social-cognitive vicarious learning …, values), behaviour and environment. Our analysis is basedon a survey of the Indian trans-Himalayan regions. The development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866006
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Quantity Competition under Asymmetric Information withoutCommon Priors: An Indirect Evolutionary Approach
Güth, Werner; Llorente Erviti, Loreto; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004
The common prior assumption asserts that the beliefs of agents in different states of theworld are their posteriors based on a common prior and possibly some private signal. Commonpriors are pervasive in most economic models of incomplete information, oligopoly models withasymmetrically informed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866870
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DEFINING POVERTY LINES AS A FRACTION OFCENTRAL TENDENCY
Muller, Christophe - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2000
distribution restricts the evolution of the poverty measuresto be stable... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869058
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Be Fruitful and Multiply? Moderate Fecundity and Long-Run Reproductive Success
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - 2014
a larger predisposition towards child quality, contributing to the onset of the demographic transition and the evolution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352345
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Evolution of Individual Preferences and Persistence of Family Rules
Cigno, Alessandro; Gioffré, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - 2019
preference evolution? We show that it is in a couple's common interest to obey a rule requiring them to give specified amounts of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059103
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On Market Forces and Human Evolution
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
This paper studies how an institution such as markets affects the evolution of mankind. My key point is that the forces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262480
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Hedonic capital
Graham, Liam; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2006
This paper proposes a new way to think about happiness. It distinguishes between stocks and flows. Central to the analysis is a concept we call 'hedonic capital'. The paper sets out a model of the dynamics of wellbeing in which bad life-shocks are smoothed by the drawing down of hedonic capital....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267560
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Social Reciprocity
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2004
We define social reciprocity as the act of demonstrating one's disapproval, at some personal cost, for the violation of widely-held norms (e.g., don't free ride). Social reciprocity differs from standard notions of reciprocity because social reciprocators intervene whenever a norm is violated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271935
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Complexity: A review of the classics
Furtado, Bernardo Alves; Sakowski, Patrícia Alessandra … - 2015
, learning and evolution. Finally, contemporary criticisms are presented. They suggest that the arguments of complex systems do …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234215
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Adjustment Dynamics and Rational Play in Games
Swinkels, Jeroen M. - 1991
When a strategic situation arises repeatedly, the possibility arises that equilibrium predictions can be justified by a dynamic adjustment process. We examine myopic adjustment dynamics, a class that includes replicator dynamics from evolutionary game theory, simple models of imitation, models...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012235814