Anthropological evidence suggests that the human species has evolved what could be called a "trading instinct" over millions of years of Darwinian adaptation, where trade acts as a social catalyst and thus as a suppressor of violent conflict among trading groups. Yet, the geographical and...

Studies of e-collaboration from a game-theoretic perspective are practically nonexistent. This article contributes to filling this gap by focusing on the strategic interaction between players as they decide whether and how much to collaborate with each other.We use evolutionary game theory to...

The ongoing debate regarding the significance of religion and language on economic performance (GDP) is inconclusive and non-exhaustive. We present a non-parametric partial least square – structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) analysis of within-country diversity and GDP. With a sample of 46...

Variance-based structural equation modeling is extensively used in information systems research, and many related findings may have been distorted by hidden collinearity. This is a problem that may extent to multivariate analyses in general, in the field of information systems as well as in many...

This paper discusses a variety of empirical findings suggesting that surprise is positively related with enhanced memory recall. This opens the door for the assumption that surprising stimuli can be used in a controlled way to enhance learning. A predictive model based on a Darwinian...

Let us say that a coincidence involving two events, where one seems to predict the other, happens a number of times. How many times until it can be considered not only a coincidence, but a statistically significant pattern? We propose a framework to answer this question. Using the framework, we...

We propose a theory of cryptocurrencies employing proof of socially beneficial work. New tokens of these cryptocurrencies would be issued only based on work that has already been conducted, with demonstrated and easily quantifiable positive results. We theorize that such cryptocurrencies will...