This paper provides an introduction to the field of evolutionary economics with emphasis on the evolutionary theory of … evolutionary theory of household behavior is to improve upon the neoclassical theory of household behavior by replacing the …

Interventions to increase cooperation in social dilemmas depend on understanding decision makers' motivations for … cooperation or defection. We examined these in five real-world social dilemmas: situations where private interests are at odds …-reported cooperation is weakly but positively correlated across these dilemmas. Cooperation in each dilemma correlates fairly strongly with …

: the higher the degree of market integration and the higher the payoffs to cooperation in everyday life, the greater the …

that the theory of human behavior that is credited to Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and that has dominated economic … thinking ever since is not supportive of workplace democracy. However, Smith developed a far richer theory of human behavior in … his Theory of Moral Sentiments. His fuller theory depicted humans as fully social beings, in need of community. This …

theory and in Becker’s later work which introduces personal and social capital into the individual utility function. It then …

this view is fallacious, because game theory rather suggests the cooperation between the competitors, which is detrimental …At first glance, game theory could support with rational, ideologically neutral arguments the logic necessity of acting … disponibility for cooperation with the other players of the economic game. Consequently, it is only rational to adopt an ethical …

cooperation or competition. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2008 …

trust in EU institutions and programmes should be strengthened, and the cooperation between the non-profit organisation …