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SUMMARY:Michael Shermer - Evonomics: Natural Selection\, the Invisible Hand\, and the New Science of Evolutionary Economics
DESCRIPTION:Michael Shermer: Skeptic MagazineThere are a number of parallels between evolution and economics that we shall explore on two tiers—historical and theoretical: the parallels between natural selection and the invisible hand; the nature of evolution and the characteristics of a free market economy; the reluctance to accept the theory of evolution and free market economics; evolution and economics as emergent properties; how evolution shaped economic behavior; and contingency in evolution and path dependency in economies. In short\, natural selection and the invisible hand are analogous descriptors for analogous phenomena.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/michael-shermer-evonomics-natural-selection-the-invisible-hand-and-the-new-science-of-evolutionary-economics/
CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation
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SUMMARY:Bruce Winterhalder - Seven Reasons to Remain a Forager
DESCRIPTION:Bruce Winterhalder: UC Davis Department of AnthropologyArchaeological research shows that many human populations continued to hunt-and-gather for thousands of years after beginning the use of plant domesticates. This kind of mixed economy is rare in the ethnographic literature on foragers and horticulturalists; its persistence for millennia in the early stages of agricultural origins is inexplicable under much current theory. In this paper I describe models and concepts from evolutionary anthropology which may help us to explain this novel\,persistent\, prehistoric mode of production. The more important ones include (a) the population ecology of the domesticates themselves\, (b) environmental fluctuation\, (c) temporal discounting of subsistence options\, (d) maintenance of technological knowledge in low-density populations\, and (e) institutional mechanisms of risk-manage under changing economic regimes. Collectively these ideas are meant to demonstrate\, contra Sahlins and substantivism\, the utility of a selective set of micro-economic concepts in the study of pre-market economies.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/bruce-winterhalder-seven-reasons-to-remain-a-forager/
CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20060522T000000
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SUMMARY:Robert Hoffmann - Religion\, Religiosity and Cooperation: An Experimental Study from Malaysia
DESCRIPTION:Robert Hoffmann: Department of Economics\, Nottingham University Business School\, The University of NottinghamHuntington’s notion of a clash of cultures has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years. In particular\, religious differences as well as religious fundamentalism have been identified as crucial dimension of present culture clashes. We conducted a study to explore to what extent different religions and religiosity affect the economic interactions between individuals as a test of this notion. The study is based on religious attitude surveys and incentivised economic experiments with repeated prisoner’s dilemma play among Malaysian subjects. The multi-ethnic nature of Malaysia is ideally suited to match subjects for game play from the world’s major religions (Islam\, Catholicism\, Protestantism\, Hinduism and Buddhism) while holding other socio-economic factors constant.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/robert-hoffmann-religion-religiosity-and-cooperation-an-experimental-study-from-malaysia/
CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20060529T000000
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SUMMARY:Dacher Keltner - Evolution's Soul: What Laughter\, Smiling\, Lip Puckers\, and Goosebumps Tell us About the Evolution of Human Goodness
DESCRIPTION:Dacher Keltner: UC Berkeley Department of PsychologyIn this talk I will present recent work on the pro-social emotions. I will present studies of smiling\, the relations between oxytocin and the nonverbal displays of love and desire\, and recent evidence exploring the role of vagus nerve activity in compassion and pro-social dispositions. I will use these data to offer the beginnings of a theory of the emotion-related origins of pro-sociality\, drawing upon Darwin’s own speculations and those of recent philosophers and behavioral scientists.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/dacher-keltner-evolutions-soul-what-laughter-smiling-lip-puckers-and-goosebumps-tell-us-about-the-evolution-of-human-goodness/
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