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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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That individuals contribute in social dilemma interactions even when contributing is costly is a well-established observation in the experimental literature. Since a contributor is always strictly worse off than a non-contributor the question is raised if an intrinsic motivation to contribute...
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We consider the evolution of preferences when trade occurs between two countries. We show that if one country is much …
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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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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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social evolution. …
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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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effect by showing that evolution favors individuals whose preferences embody an endowment effect. The reason is that an …
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