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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 … to offer to economics. In recent decades theoretical biology has progressed faster than economics in understanding … optimal state of nature. These correspond to Colander et al. (2004) “holy trinity of orthodox economics”, rationality, greed …
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Rationality, Behavior, Institutional and Economic Change in Schumpeter
Festré, Agnès; Garrouste, Pierre - International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) - 2007
economics. First, this paper is interesting in itself because it is based on a sophisticated methodological analysis. Schumpeter … indeed interestingly anticipates some important debates concerning the problem of rationality and behavior in economics and …
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Declining trust in growing China: A dilemma between growth and socio-economic damage
Dai, Shuanping; Elsner, Wolfram - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität … - 2015
Declining general trust has become a serious social issue in China in recent years. This paper attempts to understand and analyze this social phenomenon from a social interaction perspective. Based on a repeated prisoners´ dilemma game on networks, it finds that the evolution of general trust...
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Evolutionary and Institutional Analysis of the Scarcity Concept in the Contemporary Paradigm of the Neoclassical Economics
Tchipev, Plamen - In: Economic Thought journal (2006) 7, pp. 109-120
An attempt is made for critical assessment of a fundamental category of the neoclassical economics by means of the … answer for its specific presence in the neoclassical economics as well as for the absence of any institutional projection in …
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Institutions for Intuitive Man
Engel, Christoph - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2007
By its critics, the rational choice model is routinely accused of being unrealistic. One key objection has it that, for all nontrivial problems, calculating the best response is cognitively way too taxing, given the severe cognitive limitations of the human mind. If one confines the analysis to...
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Evolutionary and Institutional Economic Analysis of the Scarcity Concept in Modern Economics
Tchipev, Plamen - In: Economic Thought journal (2006) 3, pp. 44-58
This is an attempt to rationalise a fundamental category of modern neoclassical economics from a critical point of view … context. A possible answer regarding its specific presence in the neoclassical economics has been suggested, as well as with …
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La performativité des sciences économiques
Muniesa, Fabian; Callon, Michel - Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), MINES ParisTech - 2008
Provides some theoretical developments on the topic of the performativity of economics. …
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A P2P File Sharing Network Topology Formation Algorithm Based on Social Network Information
Altmann, Jorn; Bedane, Zelalem Berhanu - Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program … - 2010
This paper applies the theory of social networks to P2P systems, creating a social-network-based P2P network topology formation algorithm for file sharing. The algorithm extends the Gnutella P2P file sharing technology, which uses super nodes for searching and for relaying shared files between...
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Schumpeter's Idea of a Universal Science
Bögenhold, Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
considered not only his latest but also his most relevant analysis concerning social sciences and the role of economics in … economics, this paper argues that Schumpeter could also, perhaps primarily, be interpreted as a well-reasoning institutionalist …
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Predicting crises: Five essays on the mathematic prediction of economic and social crises
Albers, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This volume – Predicting Crisis: Five Essays on the Mathematic Prediction of Economic and Social Crises – is the first of three sets of essays. In this first set the economic and social history of the United States is shown to be a “system of movement,” i.e. a logical and mathematic...
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