Some Evolutionary Economics of Family Partnerships

Some Evolutionary Economics of Family Partnerships

Alice and Bob live in the forest. To sustain themselves, they collect fruits and berries and snare an occasional animal. The nights get cold, but Alice is a skillful fire-builder. Bob has never mastered this art. His fires fizzle and he never seems to collect the right kind of wood. Alice divides her time between collecting food and gathering wood. She does this in such a way that her marginal ...

Evolutionary Agent-Based Economics Evolutionary Agent-Based Economics

The work in this thesis has been carried out at the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) under the auspices of the research school IPA (Institute for Programming research and Algorithmics). Acknowledgments I am grateful to the many people who have helped and supported me in the past few years. First of all, I thank my supervisors Han La Poutré and Hans Amman for their valuable input and t...

Evolutionary foundations of Coasean economics : transforming new institutional economics into evolutionary economics

In recent years, interest in the role of institutions in economic society has increased and economists have been forced to incorporate them into economic analysis. The institutional perspective has not only brought new challenges for economics, but also led to a re-evaluation, redefinition, and transformation of the discipline itself. It would not be an overstatement to say that the method by w...

Family limited partnerships preserve wealth.

Evolutionary Games in Economics

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