Uri Gneezy: UCSD Rady School of Management Arthur Brody Endowed Chair in Management Leadership, Professor of Management and StrategyIn this talk I will discuss some recent findings regarding gender differences in economic experiments. The discussion will focus on gender differences in competitiveness, but will also touch on differences in risk preferences and social preferences. I […]
Aaron Blackwell: UCSB Department of AnthropologyThe Shuar are a large and semi-autonomous indigenous group from the Amazonas region of Ecuador. Most Shuar subsist on a mixture of foraging and horticulture, but increasingly Shuar in many areas are becoming integrated with market economies. This talk presents fieldwork conducted amongst the Shuar between 2005 and 2009, with […]
Quentin Atkinson: University of Oxford Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary AnthropologyLanguages, like species, evolve. Words and phrases compete for our favour in a struggle for existence that is analogous to natural selection. Words that survive are passed on from generation to generation in a process of descent with modification. This process has generated the thousands […]
