The Economics of Cultural Transmission and the Dynamics of Preferences

2001/04/01 by Alberto Bisin, Thierry Verdier · 1,660 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Altruism (biology) #Artificial intelligence #Biology #Computer science #Cultural transmission in animals #Culture, Economy, and Development Studies #Demography #Dynamics (music) #Economic theories and models #Economics #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Evolutionary biology #Evolutionary dynamics #Imperfect #Microeconomics #Population #Preference #Psychology #Replicator equation #Selection (genetic algorithm) #Social psychology #Sociology #Transmission (telecommunications)

paper · doi:10.1006/jeth.2000.2678

published in Journal of Economic Theory 97(2), 298-319 (Elsevier BV)

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