Altruists and envious people who meet in contests are symbionts. They do better than a population of narrowly rational …

We define an indirect evolutionary approach formally and apply it to (Tullock) contests. While it is known (Leininger …-player contests. The evolutionarily stable preferences (ESP) of the indirect approach turn out to be negatively interdependent …

to spread group-beneficial cultural traits - such as altruism considered here as the opposite of envy - through …This paper develops a set of arguments for envy reduction within economics and tries to show that, if humans possess a …