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    • Economic correlates of footbinding: Implications for the importance of Chinese daughters’ labor 

      Brown, Melissa J; Satterthwaite-Phillips, Damian (Public Library of Science, 2018)
      Background It is a wide-spread assumption about footbinding that footbound girls and women were more of an economic burden on their families than those never bound. It is often presumed that government policies and ...

    • The Economic Cost of the American Civil War: Estimates and Implications 

      Goldin, Claudia; Lewis, Frank (Cambridge University Press, 1975)

    • Economic Development in Historical Perspective, 1945-1990 

      Eckert, Carter Joel (Ilchokak, 1990)

    • Economic game theory for mutualism and cooperation 

      Archetti, Marco; Scheuring, István; Hoffman, Moshe; Frederickson, Megan E.; Pierce, Naomi E.; Yu, Douglas W. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
      We review recent work at the interface of economic game theory and evolutionary biology that provides new insights into the evolution of partner choice, host sanctions, partner fidelity feedback and public goods. (1) The ...

    • Economic Games on the Internet: The Effect of $1 Stakes 

      Amir, Ofra; Rand, David Gertler; Gal, Ya'akov (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Online labor markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) offer an unprecedented opportunity to run economic game experiments quickly and inexpensively. Using Mturk, we recruited 756 subjects and examined their behavior ...

    • Economic Growth and the Moral Society 

      Friedman, Benjamin Morton (The Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals, 2010)

    • Economic Hierarchical Q-learning 

      Schultink, Erik; Cavallo, Ruggiero; Parkes, David C. (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2008)
      Hierarchical state decompositions address the curse-of-dimensionality in Q-learning methods for reinforcement learning (RL) but can suffer from suboptimality. In addressing this, we introduce the Economic Hierarchical ...

    • Economic History and Nationalism 

      Rothschild, Emma (Project Muse, 2021-02-06)
      In “Economic Theory and Nationalism,” written in 1934, the economist Frank Knight identified two tendencies—one towards gross inequality and the other towards new techniques of influence—that appeared to be leading to ...

    • Economic Integration and Political Disintegration 

      Alesina, Alberto; Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain (American Economic Association, 2000)
      In a world of trade restrictions, large countries enjoy economic benefits, because political boundaries determine the size of the market. Under free trade and global markets even relatively small cultural, linguistic or ...

    • Economic Interdependence and War 

      Cooper, Richard N. (MIT Press, 2014)

    • Economic Origins and Aims: A Role for Religious Thinking? 

      Friedman, Benjamin Morton (Yale Divinity School, 2010)

    • Economic Profitability of Social Predation Among Wild Chimpanzees: Individual Variation Promotes Cooperation 

      Gilby, Ian C.; Eberly, Lynn E.; Wrangham, Richard W. (Elsevier, 2008)
      Social predation (hunting in groups) presents a collective action problem. If nonhunters can obtain meat following a kill, it is unclear why an individual would choose to incur hunting costs.We explored this question using ...

    • Economic Profitability Versus Ecological Entropy 

      Weitzman, Martin L. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2000)
      There is a long-standing trade-off in bioculture between concentrating on high-yield varieties and maintaining sufficient diversity to lower the risks of catastrophic infection. The paper uses a simple ecology-based model ...

    • Economic reasoning and artificial intelligence 

      Parkes, David C.; Wellman, M. P. (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2015)
      The field of artificial intelligence (AI) strives to build rational agents capable of perceiving the world around them and taking actions to advance specified goals. Put another way, AI researchers aim to construct a ...

    • Economic Risk and Political Risk in Fiscal Unions 

      Alesina, Alberto; Perotti, Roberto (Blackwell Publishing, 1994)
      A fiscal programme that redistributes income from rich to poor individuals indirectly redistributes tax revenues from regions hit by a favourable shock to regions hit by an unfavourable one. Centralised fiscal redistribution ...

    • The Economic Sociology of Capitalism, edited by Victor Nee and Richard Swedberg 

      Dobbin, Frank (University of Chicago Press, 2006)

    • An Economically Principled Generative Model of AS Graph Connectivity 

      Corbo, Jacomo; Jain, Shaili; Mitzenmacher, Michael D.; Parkes, David C. (Association for Computing Machinery, 2007)
      We explore the problem of modeling Internet connectivity at the Autonomous System (AS) level and present an economically-principled dynamic model that reproduces key features of the AS graph structure. We view the graph ...

    • An Economically-Principled Generative Model of AS Graph Connectivity 

      Corbo, Jacomo; Jain, Shaili; Mitzenmacher, Michael D.; Parkes, David C. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2009)
      End-to-end packet delivery in the Internet is achieved through a system of interconnections between the network domains of independent entities called autonomous systems (ASes). Inter-domain connections are the result of ...

    • The Economics of Emancipation 

      Goldin, Claudia (Cambridge University Press, 1973)

    • The Economics of Fair Trade 

      Dragusanu, Raluca; Giovannucci, Daniele; Nunn, Nathan (American Economic Association, 2014)
      Fair Trade is a labeling initiative aimed at improving the lives of the poor in developing countries by offering better terms to producers and helping them to organize. Whether Fair Trade can achieve its intended goals has ...