Evaluating social contract theory in the light of evolutionary social science

P Seabright, J Stieglitz… - Evolutionary Human …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Political philosophers have long drawn explicitly or implicitly on claims about the ways in
which human behaviour is shaped by interactions within society. These claims have usually …

The Dasgupta Review and the problem of anthropocentrism

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 …

Evolutionarily stable (mis) specifications: Theory and applications

K He, J Libgober - arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.15007, 2020 - arxiv.org
Toward explaining the persistence of biased inferences, we propose a framework to
evaluate competing (mis) specifications in strategic settings. Agents with heterogeneous …

Evolution of preferences in structured populations: genes, guns, and culture

I Alger, JW Weibull, L Lehmann - Journal of Economic Theory, 2020 - Elsevier
During human evolution, individuals interacted mostly within small groups that were
connected by limited migration and sometimes by conflicts. Which preferences, if any, will …

Estimating social preferences and Kantian morality in strategic interactions

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 …

Evolutionary instability of selfish learning in repeated games

A McAvoy, J Kates-Harbeck, K Chatterjee… - PNAS nexus, 2022 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Game theory in biology: moving beyond functional accounts

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 …

Learning leads to bounded rationality and the evolution of cognitive bias in public goods games

O Leimar, JM McNamara - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
In social interactions, including cooperation and conflict, individuals can adjust their
behaviour over the shorter term through learning within a generation, and natural selection …

Elimination of non-individualistic preferences in large population aggregative games

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 …

Homo moralis goes to the voting booth: coordination and information aggregation

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 …