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The role of biology and culture in Veblenian consumption dynamics
Cordes, Christian - 2007
This paper incorporates aspects of humans' evolved cognition into a formal model of cultural evolution and scrutinizes their interactions with population-level processes. It is shown how the biased transmission of different kinds of behavior via cultural learning processes influences agents'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266741
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Economic behavior: Evolutionary vs. behavioral perspectives
Witt, Ulrich - 2010
An evolutionary perspective on economic behavior has to account for the influences that the human genetic endowment has on the choices the agents make. Likely to have been fixed in times of fierce selection pressure, this endowment is presumably adapted to the living conditions of early humans....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286736
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Can Darwinism be 'generalized' and of what use would this be?
Levit, Georgy S.; Hossfeld, Uwe; Witt, Ulrich - 2010
principles of such a Generalized Darwinism are not those that in the development of evolutionary biology have been crucial for … Generalized Darwinism can be made fruitful for evolutionary economics given that its principles are but an abstract hull that does … evidence in the literature for the claim that Generalized Darwinism can enhance the explanatory power of an evolutionary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281846
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An Evolutionary Agent-based simulation model for the industry life cycle
Lehmann-Waffenschmidt, B. Cornelia - 2008
In contrast to the usual approach taken in the literature, in which an Industry Life Cycle (ILC) is reproduced by aggregate functions, the model of this paper generates a self-organizing ILC. A general evolutionary agent-based simulation model is developed that can be adapted for specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300629
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Agent-based modelling : a methodology for the analysis of qualitative development processes
Pyka, Andreas; Grebel, Thomas - 2003
The tremendous development of an easy access to computational power within the last 30 years has led to the widespread use of numerical approaches in almost all scientific disciplines. The first generation of simulation models was rather focused on stylized empirical phenomena. With agent-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263008
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The Evolution of the Literature on Technological Change over time: A Survey
Conte, Andrea - 2006
the development of a more general theory of the determinants and the effects of TC. In turn, such theory has to deal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263572
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Emergent cultural phenomena and their cognitive foundations
Cordes, Christian - 2007
between individual cognitive dispositions at the micro level and cultural phenomena at the macro level, the theory of gene …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266713
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On the stability of equilibria in replicator dynamics modelling: an application in industrial dynamics considering resource constraints
Klarl, Torben - 2008
Replicator dynamic modelling (rdm) is used to discuss industrial evolution problems with heterogeneous agents. However, some of the models tend to be very complex and, therefore, analytical solutions cannot be obtained. Hence, the paper proposes to start with a relatively simple model and check...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267054
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Evolutionary Analysis of the Relationship between Economic Growth, Environmental Quality and Resource Scarcity
van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. - 2004
This discussion paper has resulted in a chapter in: (R.U. Ayres, D. Simpson, and M. Toman (eds.)), Scarcity and Growth in the Millennium, 2005, Resources for the Future, Washington DC, 177-97.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325531
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A very reasonable objective still beyond our reach: Economics as an empirically disciplined social science
Dosi, Giovanni - 2002
The paper discusses some fundamental features of the 'Simonian' research program in microeconomics and compare them with two streams of thought which find their roots into Simon's pathbreaking work since the '50s and '60s, namely Transaction Cost Economics and Evolutionary Economics. One argues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328517