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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
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 economists refer to and mention Darwin as a biologist and neglect or ignore his … theory of social and cultural evolution. Three types of reference are identified: first, economists view and quote Darwin as …
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Agent-based modelling of novelty creating behavior and sectoral growth effects—Linking the creative and the destructive side of innovation
Beckenbach, Frank; Daskalakis, Maria; Hofmann, David - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 22 (2012) 3, pp. 513-542
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THE NANOLEVEL OF ECONOMIC HIERARCHY
SHULTS D.N. - In: Вестник Пермского … (2014) 3, pp. 22-28
on bounded rationality; neoinstitutionalism and ethical economics preserve the concept of rationality in the theory … the theory it entails; neoinstitutionalism broadens and deepens the neoclassical theory maintaining its core; ethical …, expansion of psychology into economics; evolutionary theory biology expansion into economics; ethical economics ethics expansion …
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Evolutionary economics and household behavior
Horioka, Charles Yuji - In: Philippine Review of Economics 51 (2014) 2, pp. 67-82
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261245
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АДАПТИВНОЕ ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОЕ ПОВЕДЕНИЕ В КОНТЕКСТЕ ИНСТИТУЦИОНАЛЬНЫХ ИЗМЕНЕНИЙ
АЛЕКСЕЕВНА, ЗОТОВА ТАТЬЯНА - In: Journal of Economic Regulation (Вопросы … 3 (2012) 3, pp. 73-79
В эволюционной перспективе поведение акторов связано с адаптацией к существующим институциональным условиям, которые формируют пространство возможных...
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Policy Instruments for Evolution of Bounded Rationality: Application to Climate-Energy Problems
Nannen, Volker; den Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We demonstrate how an evolutionary agent-based model can be used to evaluate climate policies that take the heterogeneity of strategies of individual agents into account. An essential feature of the model is that the fitness of an economic strategy is determined by the relative welfare of the...
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Economic Behavior - Evolutionary vs. Behavioral Perspectives
Witt, Ulrich - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 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....
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Evolutionary Analysis of Climate Policy and Renewable Energy: Heterogeneous Agents, Relative Welfare and Social Network
Nannen, Volker; den Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We demonstrate how an evolutionary agent-based model can be used to evaluate climate policies that take the heterogeneity of strategies of individual agents into account. An essential feature of the model is that the fitness of an economic strategy is determined by the relative welfare of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111539
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Evolutionary Economics and Household Behavior
Horioka, Charles Yuji - School of Economics, University of the Philippines at … - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010892239