This thesis contributes to economic research in two subfields of behavioral economics: asset pricing under risk and gift-exchange. (Abstract shortened by ProQuest.).University of Pittsburgh.Ju, Shijun.University of Pittsburgh.
Ancient bacteria, if they functioned like those today, had mastered the art of worldwide information exchange. … The earliest microorganisms would have used planet-sweeping currents of wind and water to carry the scraps of genetic code…
Introduction and Definition The social sciences are broadly based on the dichotomy between self-interest and altruism. This distinction can already be found in the writings of Thomas Hobbes and Jean Jacques Rousseau. Circumventing these alternatives, it can be claimed, in contrast, that the dichotomy...
By tempering traditional consumer research with an anthropological perspective, our understanding of gift exchange can be enriched. A model of the gift ... Sherry Jr.,F John - 《Journal of Consumer Research》 被引量: 636发表: 1983年 The moral of the gift The author analyses the gift as a...
Putting Behavioral Economics to Work: Testing for Gift Exchange in Labor Markets Using Field Experiments. Econometrica 74 (5), 1365-1384.U. Gneezy, J. A. List, Putting Behavioral Economics to Work: Testing for Gift Exchange in Labor Markets Using Field Experiments. Econometrica 74, 1365 (2006...
Several species of insects, birds, and mammals are known to give or exchange a diverse range of gifts during courtship or copulation including, but not limited to: nongametic organic materials, food items, and apparently worthless tokens (LeBas and Hockham 2005). In human mating, nuptial givin...
As an exemplification of the failure to analyse social phenomena and the complexity of human nature, the thesis explores the conceptualisation of institutions (in the form of markets and gifts) within mainstream economics. The thesis focuses upon the static equilibrium and exchange mechanism conception...
Introduction Several species of insects, birds, and mammals are known to give or exchange a diverse range of gifts during courtship or copulation including, but not limited to: nongametic organic materials, food items, and apparently worthless tokens (LeBas and Hockham2005). In human mating, nu...