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Global power shifts and the future of democracy : an evolutionary approach, with special attention to China

Owen, John M. - 2016

general questions concerning the regional and global waxing and waning of domestic regime types. Evolution's claims about the … co-evolution and niche construction are crucial: an agent may modify its environment such that one or more traits of that … agent enjoy a greater reproductive advantage. Agency, then, may be not an escape from evolution but a participation in co-evolution …

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Natural selection and the evolution of life expectancy

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer - 2004

This research develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the intricate time path of life expectancy in the process of development, shedding new light on the origin of the remarkable rise in life expectancy since the Agricultural Revolution. The theory argues that social, economic and...

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Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit and the process of development

Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2006

This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of … economic development and the evolution of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit …

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Long-run selection and the work ethic

Josephson, Jens; Waerneryd, Karl - 2004

That individuals contribute in social dilemma interactions even when contributing is costly is a well-established observation in the experimental literature. Since a contributor is always strictly worse off than a non-contributor the question is raised if an intrinsic motivation to contribute...

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International trade and cultural diversity : a model of preference selection

Bala, Vankatesh; Long, Ngo Van - 2004

We consider the evolution of preferences when trade occurs between two countries. We show that if one country is much …

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On Market Forces and Human Evolution

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

This paper studies how an institution such as markets affects the evolution of mankind. My key point is that the forces …

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Evolution and Correlated Equilibrium

Koch, Lars P. - 2008

We show that a set of outcomes outside the convex hull of Nash equilibria can be asymptotically stable with respect to convex monotonic evolutionary dynamics. Boundedly rational agents receive signals and condition the choice of strategies on the signals. A set of conditional strategies is...

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