The evolution of cooperative hierarchies through natural selection processesJournal of Bioeconomics - Tập 12 - Trang 29-42 - 2010
Deby Cassill, Alison Watkins
According to a bioeconomic model called skew selection, individuals form cooperative hierarchies when coping with high risk environments that include predators and cycles of scarce resources. This paper reports a study that used agent-based computer simulations to experimentally test the predictions of skew selection. Results of the experiment showed that successful face-to-face transaction strate...... hiện toàn bộ
Coevolution of product quality and consumer preferencesJournal of Bioeconomics - Tập 12 - Trang 101-117 - 2010
Takanori Ida
This paper seeks to analyze the self-reinforcing coevolutionary process of innovation on the basis of the framework of evolutionary ecology and population genetics. Particularly central to this analysis is “Fisher’s runaway process,” which explains the coevolution of product quality and consumer preference in the supply–demand context. This paper puts forward the following main points. First, we c...... hiện toàn bộ
Evolution, institutions, and human well-being: perspectives from a critical social anthropologyJournal of Bioeconomics - Tập 16 - Trang 61-69 - 2013
Chris Hann
The work of Elinor Ostrom is important for those who deplore the fact that the rise of ethnographic methods has led mainstream socio-cultural anthropologists to lose interest in evolution. This trend in anthropology is illustrated with reference to research on property, where Ostrom herself made notable contributions. However, it is argued that her mature work on the evolution of rules and her pri...... hiện toàn bộ
Ordinaries 8Journal of Bioeconomics - Tập 24 - Trang 1-35 - 2022
Terence C. Burnham, Jay Phelan
The “cashew conundrum” is a seminal event in the history of economics. Professor Richard Thaler observed that his guests were happier not having the option to consume pre-dinner cashews. The fact that people can be happier with fewer options directly contradicts core assumptions in neoclassical economics, and is labeled an “anomaly” by behavioral economics. Far from being surprising, the cashew ph...... hiện toàn bộ
OrdinariesJournal of Bioeconomics - Tập 22 - Trang 137-154 - 2020
Terence C. Burnham, Jay Phelan
Self-control is central to human success. Neoclassical economics posits a cohesive, rational brain that always picks the best outcome. Behavioral economics documents self-control problems and suggests ‘nudges.’ Evolutionary biology explains the source of self-control struggles. Based on an evolutionary understanding, we present a comprehensive taxonomy of self-control strategies.
The Bioeconomics of Marine Reserves: A Selected Review with Policy ImplicationsJournal of Bioeconomics - Tập 7 - Trang 161-178 - 2005
R. Quentin Grafton, Tom Kompas, Viktoria Schneider
The paper ‘bridges the divide’ between the biological and economic literature on marine reserves. It provides a selected review of the traditional use of reserves, the early reserve literature, the potential benefits of reserves, spillovers from reserves to harvested areas and bioeconomic models of marine reserves. The bioeconomics literature is examined from the perspectives of deterministic mode...... hiện toàn bộ
Sex on the brain: some comments on ‘love, war and cultures: An institutional approach to human evolution’Journal of Bioeconomics - Tập 15 - Trang 91-95 - 2012
Geoffrey M. Hodgson
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 compressed language is sometimes misleading or functionalist. Some of the details and current controversies ge...... hiện toàn bộ