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Economic Integration and Political Disintegration
(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
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Economic Origins and Aims: A Role for Religious Thinking?
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Economic Profitability of Social Predation Among Wild Chimpanzees: Individual Variation Promotes Cooperation
(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
(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
(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
(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
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An Economically Principled Generative Model of AS Graph Connectivity
(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
(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
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The Economics of Fair Trade
(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 ... -
The Economics of Intervention: American Overseas Investments and Relations with Underdeveloped Areas, 1890-1950
(Cambridge University Press, 1989)This essay has presented a framework for the analysis of economic factors in political relations between developed and developing areas. The most relevant considerations in this regard are the potential costs of imperial ... -
The Economics of Science and Technology Policy
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Economics: A Moral Inquiry with Religious Origins
(American Economic Association, 2011)In contrast to the standard interpretation of the origins of economics out of the secular European Enlightenment of the 18th century, the transition in thinking that we rightly identify with Adam Smith and his contemporaries ... -
The Economist as Engineer: Game Theory, Experimentation, and Computation as Tools for Design Economics
(The Econometric Society, 2002)Economists have lately been called upon not only to analyze markets, but to design them. Market design involves a responsibility for detail, a need to deal with all of a market’s complications, not just its principle ... -
An Economist's Perspective on Multi-Agent Learning
(Elsevier, 2007)We comment on the Shoham, Powers, and Grenager survey of multi-agent learning and game theory, emphasizing that some of their categories are important for economics and others are not. We also try to correct some minor ... -
Ecophysiological Traits of Terrestrial and Aquatic Carnivorous Plants: Are the Costs and Benefits the Same?
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)Identification of trade-offs among physiological and morphological traits and their use in cost-benefit models and ecological or evolutionary optimization arguments have been hallmarks of ecological analysis for at least ... -
Ecosystem heterogeneity determines the ecological resilience of the Amazon to climate change
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015)Understanding how changes in climate will affect terrestrial ecosystems is particularly important in tropical forest regions, which store large amounts of carbon and exert important feedbacks onto regional and global ... -
An ecosystem-scale perspective of the net land methanol flux: synthesis of micrometeorological flux measurements
(2015)Methanol is the second most abundant volatile organic compound in the troposphere and plays a significant role in atmospheric chemistry. While there is consensus about the dominant role of living plants as the major source ...