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Global power shifts and the future of democracy : an evolutionary approach, with special attention to China

Owen, John M. - 2016

general questions concerning the regional and global waxing and waning of domestic regime types. Evolution's claims about the … co-evolution and niche construction are crucial: an agent may modify its environment such that one or more traits of that … agent enjoy a greater reproductive advantage. Agency, then, may be not an escape from evolution but a participation in co-evolution …

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A fresh look on economic evolution from kinetic viewpoint

Lehmann-Waffenschmidt, Marco - 2003

evolution equilibrium. It is based on arguments from the gradual vs. bang-bang tax reform controversy and from the debate on …

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Evolution with Mutations Driven by Control Costs

Weibull, Jörgen W.; van Damme, Eric - 1998

Bergin and Lipman (1996) show that the refinement effect from the random mutations in the adaptive dynamics in Kandori, Mailath and Rob (1993) and Young (1993) is due to restrictions on how these mutation rates vary across population states. We here model these mutation rates as endogenously...

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What have we learned from Evolutionary Game Theory so far?

Weibull, Jörgen W. - 1997

Evolutionary theorizing has a long tradition in economics. Only recently has this approach been brought into the framework of non-cooperative game theory. Evolutionary game theory studies the robustness of strategic behaviour with respect to evolutionary forces in the context of games played...

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On Market Forces and Human Evolution

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

This paper studies how an institution such as markets affects the evolution of mankind. My key point is that the forces …

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Evolution and Correlated Equilibrium

Koch, Lars P. - 2008

We show that a set of outcomes outside the convex hull of Nash equilibria can be asymptotically stable with respect to convex monotonic evolutionary dynamics. Boundedly rational agents receive signals and condition the choice of strategies on the signals. A set of conditional strategies is...

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The adaptation problem, evolution and normative economics

Qizilbash, Mozaffar - 2007

social evolution. …

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Learning to Like What You Have: Explaining the Endowment Effect

Huck, Steffen; Kirchsteiger, Georg; Oechssler, Jörg - 2003

effect by showing that evolution favors individuals whose preferences embody an endowment effect. The reason is that an …

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Natural selection and the evolution of life expectancy

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer - 2004

This research develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the intricate time path of life expectancy in the process of development, shedding new light on the origin of the remarkable rise in life expectancy since the Agricultural Revolution. The theory argues that social, economic and...

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Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit and the process of development

Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2006

This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of … economic development and the evolution of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit …

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