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Comparative economics: evolution and the modern economy

Vermeij, Geerat - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 11 (2009) 2, pp. 105-134

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Does classical liberalism imply an evolutionary approach to policy-making?

Schnellenbach, Jan - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 17 (2015) 1, pp. 53-70

<Para ID="Par1">This paper argues that an evolutionary approach to policy-making, which emphasizes openness to change and political variety, is particularly compatible with the central tenets of classical liberalism. The chief reasons are that classical liberalism acknowledges the ubiquity of uncertainty, as...</para>

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Human ultrasociality and the invisible hand: foundational developments in evolutionary science alter a foundational concept in economics

Wilson, David; Gowdy, John - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 17 (2015) 1, pp. 37-52

behaviors that are “for the good of the group” seldom maximize relative fitness within the group. The evolution of group …

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Sex on the brain: some comments on ‘love, war and cultures: An institutional approach to human evolution’

Hodgson, Geoffrey - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 15 (2013) 1, pp. 91-95

Ugo Pagano provides a stimulating account of the grand sweep of human existence on this planet, relying on a few carefully-chosen analytic tools, including the role of sexual selection, brain size, public versus positional goods, and complementarities. But in his telegraphic narrative the...

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Love, war and cultures: an institutional approach to human evolution

Pagano, Ugo - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 15 (2013) 1, pp. 41-66

Love, war and culture have all played an important role in the evolution of human institutions and they have been … institutional approach to human evolution. The different nature of contemporary production processes involves a new set of …

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How far does evolution take us? Comment on Elinor Ostrom’s: do institutions for collective action evolve?

Poteete, Amy - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 16 (2014) 1, pp. 91-98

between biological and institutional evolution, and describes an hypothetical example of institutional evolution related to an … irrigation system. The article is provocative but not definitive in that it does not demonstrate that evolution is more than a … Ostrom’s contention that evolution is not just a metaphor for institutional change, but also suggests that not all …

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Adaptationist punishment in humans

Kurzban, Robert; DeScioli, Peter - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 15 (2013) 3, pp. 269-279

Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, George Williams, and Stephen J. Gould, among others, have pointed out that observing that a certain behavior causes a certain effect does not itself license the inference that the effect was the result of intent or design to bring about that effect....

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Do institutions for collective action evolve?

Ostrom, Elinor - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 16 (2014) 1, pp. 3-30

method for studying the evolution of rules will be based on the IAD framework and on our long-term study of rules related to …

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On the Optimality of the Competitive Process: Kimura's Theorem and Market Dynamics

Metcalfe, J. - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 4 (2002) 2, pp. 109-133

This paper considers the optimality properties of a market economy in terms of three propositions that evaluate the outcomes of and the process of competition between a population of firms working within a given economic environment. We show that when firms differ in more than one competitive...

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The Bioeconomics of Cooperation

Gifford, Adam - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 2 (2000) 2, pp. 153-168

a similar shift in focus from the level of the individual to the group when studying the evolution of altruism. But some …

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