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Agriculture as a major evolutionary transition to human ultrasociality
Gowdy, John; Krall, Lisi - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 16 (2014) 2, pp. 179-202
The adoption of agriculture was one of the most momentous transformations in human history. It set into motion forces that changed our species from living in small numbers within the confines of local ecosystems into one that is now changing the biophysical characteristics of the entire planet....
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Economists on Darwin's theory of social evolution and human behaviour
Marciano, A. - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2006
The purpose of this article is to analyse the way economists interested in social and economic evolution cite, mention or refer to Darwin. We focus on the attitude of economists towards Darwin's theory of social evolution – an issue he considered as central to his theory. We show that...
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Economic cosmology and the evolutionary challenge
Gowdy, John M.; Dollimore, Denise E.; Wilson, David Sloan; … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 90 (2013) S, pp. 11-11
The intellectual histories of economics and evolutionary biology are closely intertwined because both subjects deal with living, complex, evolving systems. Because the subject matter is similar, contemporary evolutionary thought has much to offer to economics. In recent decades theoretical...
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Anticipating Nelson and Winter: Jack Downie's theory of evolutionary economic change
Nightingale, John - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 7 (1997) 2, pp. 147-167
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Downs' ökonomische Theorie der Demokratie 2.0: Politische Präferenzen und Gleichheitsaversion
Sell, Friedrich L.; Stratmann, Felix - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 2011
Nach einem kurzen Rückblick auf das Downs-Modell diskutieren wir anhand empirischer Daten aus Deutschland dessen heutige Relevanz unter Berücksichtigung der aus der Fairness-Literatur bekannten Ungleichheitsaversion (UA). Dabei wird der Begriff der sozialen Präferenzen um das neue Konzept der...
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An empirical study of the limits and perspectives of institutional transfers
Möller, Marie - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Westfälische … - 2012
The aim of this paper is to determine which country-specific characteristics promote and which impede the adoption of institutions. On the basis of a broad panel of 183 countries for the period between 1996 and 2010, we test whether there are tendencies towards a general improvement and towards...
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Governance, Demokratie und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in den ehemals sozialistischen Staaten
Apolte, Thomas; Peters, Heiko - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Westfälische … - 2009
unterschiedlichem Tempo und sequencing den Weg zu Demokratie und einer marktwirtschaftlichen Wirtschaftsordnung. Die polit … die Frage, ob die Einführung von Demokratie angesichts umfassender ökonomischer Reformen nicht besser verzögert werden … sollte. Nach einer theoretischen Betrachtung von Governance, Demokratie und Reformen folgt in diesem Beitrag ein Überblick …
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Spatial dynamics of green corridors
Boulanger, Vincent; Bruchiamacchie, Max; Chauchard, Sandrine - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2013
Forest management aims at building ecological networks that minimize the impacts on timber production. We formalize the construction of ecological networks in forest environments as the optimal control dynamic graph-theoretic problem. The ecological network is based on a set of bioreserves and...
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Industrial metabolism : a case study of the economics of cadmium control.
Klepper, Gernot; Michaelis, Peter; Mahlau, Gudrun - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 1995
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The Impact of the Bioeconomy on the Economic Development under the Global Crisis
Ionescu, Romeo-Victor - In: Acta Universitatis Danubius. OEconomica (2013) 9(2), pp. 185-192
The paper is focused on the idea that bioeconomy represents a real solution to the future sustainable development. The main objectives of the paper consist of an evaluation of the bioeconomy’s impact on the global economy, followed by finding solutions for the Romanian economy. The bioeconomy...
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