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To explain emergent cultural phenomena, this paper argues, it is inevitable to understand the evolution of complex human cognitive adaptations and their links to the population-level dynamics of cultural variation. On the one hand, the process of cultural transmission is influenced and...
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This paper presents a simple mathematical model that shows how economic inequality between social groups can arise and be maintained even when the only adaptive learning processes driving cultural evolution increases individual's economic gains. The key assumption is that human populations are...
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This paper incorporates aspects of humans' evolved cognition into a formal model of cultural evolution and scrutinizes their interactions with population-level processes. It is shown how the biased transmission of different kinds of behavior via cultural learning processes influences agents'...
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This paper presents a new framework for analyzing inequality that moves beyond the anonymity postulate. We estimate the determinants of sectoral choice and the joint distributions of outcomes across sectors. We determine which components of realized earnings variability are due to uncertainty...
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Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale indoctrinate their daughters less...
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This paper discusses consequences of changing economic conditions and job characteristics for individual behaviour by means of addiction. The central assumption is that unwanted high consumption of health damaging goods leads to an income loss. If an individual has decided on his consumption...
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Ausgangspunkt ist die Beobachtung, daß der Zusammenhang von Rationalisierungsund Institutionalisierungskonzept im Weberschen Werk bisher zu wenig Beachtung gefunden hat. Im Mittelpunkt steht deshalb eine Rekonstruktion dieses Zusammenhanges, die vom Begriff der Ordnung ausgeht. Darüber hinaus...
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In Diskursen um die künftige Entwicklung von Erwerbsarbeit wird verschiedentlich betont, daß individuellen Handlungen und Deutungen der Subjekte im Arbeitsprozeß eine zunehmende Bedeutung zukomme. Diese Entwicklung fassen wir begrifflich als "Subjektivierung von Arbeit" im Sinne eines...
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Der Begriff Zeitwohlstand findet zunehmend Verbreitung, ohne daß dem bisher ein ausgearbeitetes Konzept zugrunde liegt. Im vorliegenden Papier wird eine makrosoziologische und -ökonomische Präzisierung versucht und dabei paradigmatisch auf die Modernisierungsdiskussion der vergangenen Dekade...
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