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Language and argumentation in the controversy economic

Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This article offers an approach to the general structure of the controversy in economy. In our case we adopted a perspective to study a particular aspect of the rhetoric that comes from the context of a particular controversy: the controversy on the advantages of the free commerce between Daly...

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Your Conscience You Must Keep, or it Must be Kept for You

Rai, Birendra K. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Parents in several cultures 'discipline' their daughters to inculcate the supposedly feminine virtues. The measures taken by parents range from the benign to the brutal across societies. The paper formalizes the idea that this process can be understood as an equilibrium outcome of a signaling...

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Genetik, iktisat ilişkisi ve ekonomik büyümede genetik faktörler

BİLDİRİCİ, Melike; KÖKDENER, Meltem - In: Iktisat Isletme ve Finans 22 (2007) 257, pp. 44-58

Ekonomi ve biyolojide birkaç ortak nokta vardır. Buna teorik seviyede beşeri sermaye, genetik ve kültürel evrim, öğrenme ve rasyonel seçim arasındaki fark ve benzerlikler ve ampirik seviyede insan doğası ve karar vermenin yapısı dahildir. Bu çalışmada biyoloji ve iktisat...

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Guilt aversion and insincerity-induced disutility

Amegashie, J. Atsu - In: Economics Bulletin 28 (2006) 14, pp. 0-0

Suppose you are invited to a party, movie, dinner, etc not because your company is desired but because the inviter would feel guilty if she did not invite you. Furthermore, suppose the inviter extends an insincere invitation hoping that you will reject it and thereby assuage his guilt. I...

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Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds

Brams, Steven J. - The MIT Press

Game theory models are ubiquitous in economics, common in political science, and increasingly used in psychology and sociology; in evolutionary biology, they offer compelling explanations for competition in nature. But game theory has been only sporadically applied to the humanities; indeed, we...

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Cultural values and behavior in dictator, ultimatum, trust games: an experimental study

Chai, Sun-Ki; Dorj, Dolgosuren; Sherstyuk, Katerina - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2011

We explain laboratory behavior in the dictator, ultimatum and trust games based on two cultural dimensions adopted from social and cultural anthropology: grid and group, which translate into reciprocity and altruism, respectively, in such games. Altruism and reciprocity characteristics are...

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The logic of the violence in the civil war: the armed conflict in Colombia

Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper proposes a reading of the armed conflict from an evolutionary design that takes into account the Logic of Violence in the Civil War. Their aim is to assess the dynamics of conflict and changes from its author's scientific output. A context of conflicts that includes new expressions of...

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Beauty, Polygyny, and Fertility: Theory and Evidence

Cahu, Paul; Fall, Falilou; Pongou, Roland - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We propose a simple model of a mating economy in both monogamous and polygynous cultures, and derive implications for how polygyny affects individual and aggregate fertility. We find that an attractive woman is more likely to find a high-status husband. However, when polygyny is allowed,...

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Nonparametric estimation of a primary care production function in urban Brazil

Wichmann, Bruno; Wichmann, Roberta - In: Health Economics Review 10 (2020) 37, pp. 1-10

primary care in urban Brazil. Our goal is to use flexible estimates to identify heterogeneous returns and complementarities … the novelty of nonparametric insights. Results: The nonparametric results show significantly heterogeneity of returns to … identifies complementarities between capital and labor, which is essential in designing efficient policy interventions. For …

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Nonparametric estimation of a primary care production function in urban Brazil

Wichmann, Bruno; Wichmann, Roberta - In: Health economics review 10 (2020) 37, pp. 1-10

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