Ein erklärtes Ziel von Umfragen ist die Entscheidungsunterstützung – seien es Marketing- und Konsumentscheidungen, Personal- und Karriereentscheidungen, Finanzierungs- und Anlageentscheidungen oder übergreifende Strategieausrichtungen. Der Nutzen dieses Beitrags hängt maßgeblich von der...

Economists have a well-developed theory of value but the theory of why people hold the values they do is rudimentary at best. In spite of the fact that it is common to argue that values are important, most work on values is normative and the positive theory of values is relatively under-...

This paper studies whether prosocial values are transmitted from parents to their children. We do so through an economic experiment, in which a group of Hispanic and African American families play a standard public goods game. The experimental data presents us with a surprising result. We find...

The behaviour of urban populations is compared with the systems directing behaviour in individuals. This is both a metaphor and a mechanistic parallel. The biological model draws upon recent developments in brain research and psychological and cultural anthropology. The development and operation...