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Recoupling economic and social prosperity
Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020
This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human well-being, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and technological advance. We present two indexes of well-being - solidarity (S) and agency (A) - to be...
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Consistency in organization (updated)
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2011
Internal organization relies heavily on psychological consistency requirements. This thought has been emphasized in modern compensation theory, but has not been extended to organization theory. The perspective sheds new light on several topics in the theory of the firm, like the boundaries of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238549
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Social evolution, corporate culture, and exploitation
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2002
It has been claimed that the market fosters selfishness and thereby undermines the moral basis of society. This thesis has been developed with an emphasis on market exchange. Everyday life is, however, predominantly shaped by interactions in the workplace rather than by shopping behaviour. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415214
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Selfish altruism, fierce cooperation and the emergence of cooperative equilibria from passing and shooting
Askitas, Nikos - 2014
has enemies. As a technical contribution, I solve these models analytically in the unbiased case and numerically by an O …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235846
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Be fruitful and multiply? : moderate fecundity and long-run reproductive success
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2014
a larger predisposition towards child quality, contributing to the onset of the demographic transition and the evolution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257597
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The biocultural origins of human capital formation
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2014
and the evolution of societies from an epoch of stagnation to sustained economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403448
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The agricultural origins of time preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403576
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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/10011414433
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Employment industry and occupational continuity in Germany : from the Nazi regime to the post-war economic miracle
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2014
Using retrospective survey data that covers 1939, 1950, 1960, and 1971, I compare individual-level changes in employment industry and occupational status in Germany from the beginning of World War II to the post-war reconstruction era dubbed the Economic Miracle (Wirtschaftswunder). This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393898
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Rules, preferences and evolution from the family angle
Cigno, Alessandro - 2021
, and the emergence and persistence of rules or norms, from a family perspective. In models where every new person is …This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution of cultural traits in general and preferences in particular … effectively the clone of an existing one (either a parent or anyone else), there may be evolution only in the demographic sense …
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