Conventional R&D-based growth theory suggests that productivity growth is positively correlated with population size or population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate microfounded fertility and schooling into an otherwise standard R&D-based growth model. We...

Recent developments in society have generated misalignment between the welfare state and socio-economic conditions and preferences. This paper emphasis developments in the labor market and the structure, stability and preferences of the family, as well as macroeconomic changes. The latter...

Conventional R&D-based growth theory suggests that productivity growth is positively correlated with population size or population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate micro-founded fertility and schooling into an otherwise standard R&D-based growth model....

To explain emergent cultural phenomena, this paper argues, it is inevitable to understand the evolution of complex human cognitive adaptations and their links to the population-level dynamics of cultural variation. On the one hand, the process of cultural transmission is influenced and...

This paper presents a simple mathematical model that shows how economic inequality between social groups can arise and be maintained even when the only adaptive learning processes driving cultural evolution increases individual's economic gains. The key assumption is that human populations are...

This paper incorporates aspects of humans' evolved cognition into a formal model of cultural evolution and scrutinizes their interactions with population-level processes. It is shown how the biased transmission of different kinds of behavior via cultural learning processes influences agents'...

Dieser Beitrag entwickelt die These, dass die moderne Gesellschaft mit zwei grundlegenden Problemen konfrontiert ist: mit einer systemischen Kolonialisierung der Lebenswelt sowie – spiegelbildlich – mit einer lebensweltlichen Kolonialisierung des Systems. Zudem wird skizziert, wie sich beide...

This paper discusses consequences of changing economic conditions and job characteristics for individual behaviour by means of addiction. The central assumption is that unwanted high consumption of health damaging goods leads to an income loss. If an individual has decided on his consumption...

Ausgangspunkt ist die Beobachtung, daß der Zusammenhang von Rationalisierungsund Institutionalisierungskonzept im Weberschen Werk bisher zu wenig Beachtung gefunden hat. Im Mittelpunkt steht deshalb eine Rekonstruktion dieses Zusammenhanges, die vom Begriff der Ordnung ausgeht. Darüber hinaus...