Biology and Economics Workshop
MPSE 2002/03
This site has been prepared by Jennifer Gann.
It is not the responsibility of MPSE or the University of Toulouse.
last updated 17-Jun-03
| With the workshop now over, I'll no longer
maintain this page. I'll leave it up for the references, but won't
insure that links stay live and I am removing all the papers which I've
stored locally, to make room for next year (ok - and pictures of my
kitten).
Have a great summer, and thanks to everyone who participated. |
Participants
in the
Workshop
Click here
to download the reading list.
I've found everything on it, either through the SCD, WoPEc, the author's
website, or in the library.
If you're having trouble locating anything, let me know.
Glossary - gives definitions of terms, generally
from biology, which come up in the workshop and
might be unfamiliar to economists. Feel free to nominate terms, with our
without definitions.
glossary last updated 2 december 2002.
Ghiselin (2000) "A Bibliography for Bioeconomics," Journal of Bioeconomics, 2 233-270.
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4 november 02 |
Introduction Gilles Saint-Paul and Paul Seabright present. |
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18 november 02 12:30 - 14:00 MH 206 |
Jack Hirshleifer (1977) "Economics From a Biological Viewpoint" Journal of Law and Economics 20(1), 52 pages. Hirshleifer makes several references to a classic paper by biologist Robin Trivers, "The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism." If you're interested in following that cite, there's a copy on the web here.
Etienne Chantrel presents. |
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2 december 02 12:30 - 14:00 MH 206
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Evolution of Preferences and Rationality
Arthur Robson (2001) "The Biological Basis of Economic Behavior" Journal of Economic Literature 39, 11-33. Sorry, no link. (anyone who didn't get a copy, let me know, i have a few more)
Claudio Panico presents.
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13 january 03 12:30 - 14:00 MH 206 |
Kin Selection
Ted Bergstrom (1996) "Economics in a Family Way" Journal of Economic Literature 34, 1903-34. working paper version
Pierre-Emmanuel Ly presents. |
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27 january 03 12:30 - 14:00 MH 206 |
Kin Selection - empirical evidence
Donald Cox (2001) "How do people decide to allocate transfers among family members" Boston College working paper Case, Anne, I-Fen Lin and Sara McLanahan, (1999) "How Hungry is the Selfish Gene?" NBER WP 7401 (this link will only work from the university)
Sébastien Marty presents. |
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10 february 03 12:30 - 14:00 MH 206
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Cultural Evolution
Antoine will draw on a number of papers of Robert Boyd and Pete Richerson
in presenting their theory of cultural evolution. Antoine Loeper presents |
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24 february 03 12:30 - 14:00 MH 206 |
Evolutionary bases for conflict
Johnson, Wrangham and Rosen (2002) "Is
military incompetence adaptive: An empirical test with risk taking behavior
in modern warfare" Evolution and Human Behavior 23: 245-264. Darwin Cortes presents |
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10 mars 03 12:30 - 14:00 |
Evolution of Rigid Systems
Harrington, J (1998) "The Social Selection of Flexible and Rigid
Agents" AER 88 63-82. Pauline Grosjean presents |
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31 mars 03 MH 206 12:30 - 14:00 |
Fehr, Ernst and Joseph Henrich, (2003) "Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation? On the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Altruism" forthcoming. Alia Gizatulina presents |
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7 april 03 MH206 12:30 - 14:00 |
evolution of herd behavior Kirman A.P. (1993), "Ants, rationality and recruitment", The Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 108, February, pp. 137-156. Please see Vera or Jennifer for a copy of the paper. Vera Zaporozhets presents |
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5 may 03 MH206 12:30 - 14:00 |
cultural transmission Bisin, A and T. Verdier (2001)"Agents with imperfect empathy may survive natural selection" Economic Letters 71, 277-285 and Bisin, A and T. Verdier (2000) "A model of cultural transmission, voting and political ideology" European Journal of Political Economy, 16, 5-29. Enrique Gilles presents |
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19 may 03 MH206 12:30 - 14:00 |
co-evoution of longevity and intelligence
Robson, A and HS Kaplan (2003) "The Evolution of Human Life Expectancy and Intelligence in Hunter-Gatherer Economies," The American Economic Review 93(1), 150-169. Jean-Luc Demonsant presents |
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16 june 03 MF323 11:00 - 12:30 |
origin of time preference
Rogers, Alan R. (1995) "Evolution of Time Preference by Natural Selection," The American Economic Review 84(3) 460-481. The model used comes from Rogers' menopause paper, where it is discussed much more thoroughly. Jennifer Gann presents. |
General Research
Evolutionary Psychology basics
People & places specific to this workshop
SCD- This link takes you to the university intranet, from there choose etudiants under the heading,
Une sélection d'informations and from there, the Service Commun de la Documentation,
from there Portail des ressources documentaires >> accès aux bases des données en ligne.
The university's electronic journal subscriptions are accessible from this page.
I haven't found a master list of subscriptions, it seems that to find all the available electronic subscriptions,
you must check three places: Kluwer, Science Direct and ABI.
If I'm wrong, and you've found a better way, please let me know.
Bartelby's - nothing to do with this workshop, but ittt might improve your writing.
Evolutionary Psychology basics
Pauline asked what EP was - here's our response to her.
Primer on evolutionary psychology, by Cosmides and Tooby.
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/primer.html
FAQ's on evolutionary psychology, prepared by Edward Hagen of the Institute for Theoretical Biology in Berlin:
http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/human/evpsychfaq.html
University of Plymouth, Department of Psychology study guide for 3rd year (undergraduate) course in Evolutionary Psychology:
http://salmon.psy.plym.ac.uk/year3/PSY339EvolutionaryPsychology/EvolutionaryPsychology.htm
People & places specific to this workshop
THE KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND COGNITION RESEARCH
http://www.kli.ac.at/institute-a.html
Grutner Institute working papers on law, economics and evolutionary biology (berkely)
http://www.bepress.com/giwp/default/
Centre on Economics Learning and Social Evolution (UC London)
Santa Fe Institute, workgroup on Economics and Social Interactions
http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/research/focus/economicSocial/index.html
Behavioral Research Council of the American Institute for Economic Research
http://www.brc-aier.org/index.html
Center for Evolutionary Psychology, UC Santa Barbara
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/
why not? spam us all.
