Development economists have superseded any necessity of using Arrow’s methodological individualism (MI) in focusing on cross-cultural, cross-national, or developmental economics. This study examines whether analysis of cross-cultural economic models might include a concept of economic generosity as a type of economic structuration that deviates from MI principles and is closer to what economist...

in this study, the optimization of energy consumption and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions of irrigated lentil production in esfahan province were conducted using data envelopment analysis (dea) method. the used data were collected randomly from 140 lentil producers using a face to face questionnaire method in the cropping season of 2014-2015. based on two dea models of constant returns to...

This paper incorporates aspects of humans’ evolved cognition into a formal model of cultural evolution and scrutinizes their interactions with population-level processes. It is shown how the biased transmission of different kinds of behavior via cultural learning processes influences agents’ consumption behavior. Thereby, the model’s learning dynamics are capable of generating typical Veblenian...

Abstract In this paper, we exploit a unique weekly longitudinal survey of adults in the UK purposefully collected to study consumption choices with respect cultural content types during first Covid-19 national lockdown (the “Great Lockdown”). We look for changes probability consuming different and creative (Music, Movies, TV, Games, Books, Magazines Audiobooks), as well overall variety consumpt...

This article argues that ennobled urban spaces are places of consumption, in which contemporary processes gentrification promote a double movement: they make local cultural contents more flexible and, otherwise, rehabilitate certain contents, aiming at the re-traditionalization these consumption by insertion events as way legitimizing interventions based on supposedly common tradition.

The article examines the dynamics of media culture in relation to modern trends and digital consumption cultural educational content Russia. emphasis is placed on demand for books reading everyday Russians (including audio electronic versions Internet resources). Everything that outside space practically does not exist many users — there only what “read”, mastered a format today. literary prefe...