Paradigms and Conceptual Metamorphoses in the Relation Homo Oeconomicus vs. Homo Academicus
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Direct vs Indirect Reciprocity: An Experiment Forthcoming, Homo Oeconomicus
In this paper we report experimental results that relate to the reciprocity experiment of Berg, Dickhaut, and McCabe (1995). We consider direct reciprocity, which means to respond in kind to another person, and indirect reciprocity, understood as rewarding someone else. Another variation concerns the information about the multiplier of donations where we compare the benchmark case with a common...
متن کاملHomo Socialis and Homo Sapiens
The assumption that individuals are behaving rationally can, at times, usefully constrain predictions of individual and collective behavior. However, success in predicting human and group behavior will often require relaxing this assumption of rationality, instead employing evolutionary, neural, and cognitive constraints. One particularly important form of neural and cognitive constraint is tha...
متن کاملDrugs in the New Millennium: Mother Nature vs. Homo Sapiens?
Cancer, malaria, AIDS, tuberculosis, and their corresponding multi-drug-resistant strains among other diseases have entered into the 21st century as major human medical problems. Since ancient times mankind has dealt with health problems using drugs produced by Nature. The plant kingdom has long been exploited in many aspects and specially as a source of drugs. Indeed, evidence about the first ...
متن کاملHomo floresiensis: microcephalic, pygmoid, Australopithecus, or Homo?
The remarkable partial adult skeleton (LB1) excavated from Liang Bua cave on the island of Flores, Indonesia, has been attributed to a new species, Homo floresiensis, based upon a unique mosaic of primitive and derived features compared to any other hominin. The announcement precipitated widespread interest, and attention quickly focused on its possible affinities. LB1 is a small-bodied hominin...
متن کاملConceptual Modeling of Life: Beyond the Homo Sapiens
Our strong capability of conceptualization makes us, human beings, different from any other species in our planet. We, as conceptual modelers, should apply in the right direction such fascinating capability to make it play an essential role in the design of the world to come. What does it mean that “right direction” requiresa challenging discussion. Halfway between the need of having a sound ph...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1877-0428
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.08.688