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Trust, Introspection, and Market Participation: an Evolutionary Approach

Adriani, Fabrizio; Sonderegger, Silvia - 2009

We build a model where introspection matters - i.e., people rationally form expectations about others using the lens of their own attitudes. Since trustworthy individuals are more "optimistic" about people than opportunists, they are less afraid to engage in market-based exchanges, where they...

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Inequality: An explanation using State-Utility and Information Asymmetry

Gupta, Abhay - 2005

Having a formal understanding of what various institutions represent should be important. There are few economic variables which can accumulate over time (and give us what i call as "state utility"). All these institutions, like education, health, social (like caste system, dowry etc.), do is...

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Cooperation between Competitors - Subcontracting and the influence of information, production and capacity on market structure and competition

Schenk, Christoph - 1999

Querlieferungen vorgenommen und der Einfluß von Information, Produktion und Kapazität auf Marktstruktur und Wettbewerb analysiert. In … werden erstens Signalling via Querlieferungen und zweitens die Auswirkungen auf Produktvielfalt und Kapazitätsentscheidungen … Wettbewerbern die Wohlfahrt erhöht oder reduziert. Der Markt ist in der Lage, Mechanismen wie z.B. Signalling via Querlieferungen zu …

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Sustainable Intrapreneurship - The GSI Concept and Strategy - Unfolding Competitive Advantage via Fair Entrepreneurship

Anton, Roman - 2014

internal opportunity and frameworks of fair competition. On this account, sustainable intrapreneurial modules could give rise …

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Some Notes on the Concept of Social Capital: A Review of Perspectives, Definitions and Measurement

Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - 2018

This paper delves into various perspectives – philosophical, sociological, economic and financial / business or oganisational - in literature on the concept of social capital. It presents a review of the definitions in broad literature categorised under various perspectives. While doing so,...

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Common Good Institutions, Identity in the Workplace, and Value Dynamics

Athias, Laure - 2024

The theory of social choice stresses that the general interest determined through the aggregation of individual preferences implies interpersonal utility comparisons and hence necessarily a notion of common good beyond individual preferences. The pursuit of the common good falls to all services...

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How do the social norms sustain?

Singh, Indervir - 2009

The present study attempts to provide reasons for sustainability of social norms. Here, the people are considered as competitors, where everyone tries to improve his position in the society by proving himself better than others. In this situation, a person has an incentive to punish the rule...

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The evolutionary dynamics of tolerance

Correani, Luca; Di Dio, Fabio; Garofalo, Giuseppe - 2009

This paper incorporates the phenomenon of tolerance, as the ability to accept diversity, into an economic analysis showing how different aptitudes to trust and cooperation can affect economic outcomes. In the economic system we propose, tolerance is associated with the different weight that...

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Institutionalized Social Technologies Index: A Global Perspective

Siddiqui, Danish Ahmed; Ahmed, Qazi Masood - 2009

This paper presents an index of institutionalized social technologies covering its two main dimensions namely Risk reducing technologies and Anti Rent seeking technologies and in turn covers several social, institutional, political and economic aspects. Specifically it attempted to classify and...

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Why do People Punish the Rule Breakers?: The Sustainability of Social Norms

Singh, Indervir - 2010

This paper attempts to provide reasons for sustainability of social norms by considering internalization as the basic motivation behind the punishment behavior. A society requires people to implant the social norms in others, and punishing the rule breaker provides a person utility by letting...

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