The promises of a naturalistic approach: how cultural evolution theory can inform (evolutionary) economics

被引：6

作者：

Cordes, Christian ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Bremen, Max von Laue Str 1, D-28359 Bremen, Germany

来源：

JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS | 2019年 / 29卷 / 04期

关键词：

Economic theory development; Cultural evolution theory; Learning mechanisms; Human behavior in economic contexts; BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS; GENE COEVOLUTION; NEURAL BASIS; TRANSMISSION; DYNAMICS; MODELS; CONSUMPTION; ENVIRONMENT; DARWINISM; SELECTION;

D O I：

10.1007/s00191-019-00632-z

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Humans are an ecologically extremely successful species. Underlying this achievement is our evolved unique adaptation for culture. Moreover, humans' cultural capacity initiated a process of gene-culture coevolution that lead to a plethora of behavioral and cognitive dispositions on which cultural adaptation to challenging environments via cultural evolution rests. These characteristics of human cognition are highly relevant to any discipline dealing with human behavior. This article presents these outcomes of human phylogeny and discusses this naturalistic perspective's implications for (evolutionary) economics. Moreover, some fruitful applications of cultural evolution theory to the explanation of economic phenomena are provided.

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页码：1241 / 1262

页数：22

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