N Treich - Environmental and Resource Economics, 2022 - Springer
As is customary in economics, the Dasgupta Review on the economics of biodiversity adopts an anthropocentric approach: that is, among the millions of species on Earth, the Review …
Toward explaining the persistence of biased inferences, we propose a framework to evaluate competing (mis) specifications in strategic settings. Agents with heterogeneous …
During human evolution, individuals interacted mostly within small groups that were connected by limited migration and sometimes by conflicts. Which preferences, if any, will …
B Van Leeuwen, I Alger - Journal of Political Economy …, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
Theory suggests that a form of Kantian morality has evolutionary foundations. To investigate the relative importance of Kantian morality and social preferences, we run a laboratory …
Across many domains of interaction, both natural and artificial, individuals use past experience to shape future behaviors. The results of such learning processes depend on …
JM McNamara - The American Naturalist, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
The idea of applying game theory to problems in biology was given a formal basis nearly 50 years ago. Since then, the theory has advanced, and there have been numerous …
In social interactions, including cooperation and conflict, individuals can adjust their behaviour over the shorter term through learning within a generation, and natural selection …
R Lahkar - Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
We study evolution of preferences in large population aggregative games. In such games, all agents in society interact with each other. The material payoff or fitness of agents is …
I Alger, JF Laslier - Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper revisits two classical problems in the theory of voting—viz. the divided majority problem and the strategic revelation of information—in the light of evolutionarily founded …