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Rules, Preferences and Evolution from the Family Angle
Cigno, Alessandro - 2021
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 … that the share of the population who hold a certain trait increases or decreases. Evolution in the strict sense of new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012657932
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Rules, Preferences and Evolution from the Family Angle
Cigno, Alessandro - 2021
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 … that the share of the population who hold a certain trait increases or decreases. Evolution in the strict sense of new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658200
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Aestheticism in the theory of custom
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2021
The nature of learning processes as well as evolutionary considerations suggest that aesthetic judgement is of central importance in the formation of custom. Learning and extrapolation rely on evaluations of non-instrumental features like simplicity, analogy, straightforwardness, and clarity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012695510
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Patterned variation: The role of psychological dispositions in social and institutional evolution
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2021
for biological fitness. The process is predominately envisaged as a process of what I am going to term 'blind evolution …': a combination of random variation and selection. The idea of randomness is put into question. If evolution is is to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012695511
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Altruism and climate
Alger, Ingela; Weibull, Jörgen W. - 2006
Recognizing that individualism, or weak family ties, may be favorable to economic development, we ask how family ties interact with climate to determine individual behavior and whether there is reason to believe that the strength of family ties evolves differently in different climates. For this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281418
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Rules, preferences and evolution from the family angle
Cigno, Alessandro - 2021
This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution of cultural traits in general and preferences in particular … the clone of an existing one (either a parent or anyone else), there may be evolution only in the demographic sense that … the share of the population who hold a certain trait increases or decreases. Evolution in the strict sense of new traits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012590199
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On the evolution of altruism
Stark, Oded - 1997
We demonstrate how altruism can flourish in a population of nonaltruists. We assume that each individual plays a one-shot prisoner's dilemma game with his or her sibling and that the probability than an individual survives to reproduce is proportional to his or her payoff in this game. We model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291763
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A dynamic model of equilibrium selection in signaling markets
Nöldeke, Georg; Samuelson, Larry - 1996
In his work on market signaling, Spence proposed a dynamic model of a signaling market in which a buyer revises prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291072
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A comment on Nishimura, Nakajima, and Kiyota's "Does the natural selection mechanism still work in severe recessions? Examination of the Japanese economy in the 1990s"
Okada, Tae; Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2007
Nishimura, Nakajima, and Kiyota (2005) analyze the entry/exit behavior patterns of Japanese firms during the 1990s and find that relatively efficient (high total factor productivity (TFP)) firms exited while relatively inefficient (low TFP) firms survived during the banking-crisis period of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332355
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Cooperation through Imitation
Bergin, James; Bernhardt, Dan - 2006
This paper characterizes long-run outcomes for broad classes of symmetric games, when players select actions on the basis of average historical performance. Received wisdom is that when agent's interests are partially opposed, behavior is excessively competitive: ``keeping up with the Jones' ''...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011940661