Mini-Courses
Each
year, the CMS-EMS and CET will invite to campus a distinguished
scholar to give a mini-course on a topic of current interest.
This mini-course is open to all members of the Northwestern
community as well as visitors from other Colleges and
Universities.
The inaugural
'teacher' in the series is Professor Arthur
Robson of Simon Fraser University. Robson is the Canada
Research Chair in Economic Theory and Evolution and Fellow
of the Econometric Society. His mini-course will be
on economics and evolution.
Course
Schedule:
Monday
March 10
12:10-1:10pm
Jacobs Center Room G45
Tuesday
March 11
12:10-1:10pm
Jacobs Center Room G45
Wednesday
March 12
3:30 to 5:00pm
Jacobs Center Room G36
Thursday
March 13
12:10-1:10pm
Jacobs Center Room G45
Friday
March 14
12:10-1:10pm
Jacobs Center Room G43
Topics
will be based on these readings:
INTRODUCTION
Robson, A.J. "The
Biological Basis of Economic Behavior," J. Econ. Lit. 29
(2001), 11-33.
Robson, A.J. "Evolution
and Human Nature," J. Econ. Perspectives 16 (2002), 89-106.
UTILITY Robson, A.J. "Why
Would Nature Give Individuals Utility Functions?," J. Polit.
Econ. 109 (2001), 900-914. Rayo, L., and
Becker, G. "Evolutionary Efficiency and Happiness," University
of Chicago WP (2005).
RISK
Bergstrom,
T.C "Storage for Good Times and Bad: Of Rats and Men," UCSB
WP (2005).
Cooper W. S.,
R. H. Kaplan. 1982. Adaptive "coin-flipping": a decision-theoretic
examination of natural selection for random individual
variation. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 94:135--151.
Grafen, A. "Formal
Darwinism, the individual-as-maximizing-agent analogy and
bet-hedging," Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological
Sciences 266, 799-803.
Karni, E. and
Schmeidler, D. "Self-Preservation as a Foundation of Rational
Behavior Under Risk," J. Econ. Behav. Organ. 1986, 7, 71-82.
Robson, A.J. "A
Biological Basis for Expected and Non-Expected Utility," J.
Econ. Theory, 1996, 68, 397-424.
Robson, A.J. "The
Evolution of Attitudes to Risk: Lottery Tickets and Relative
Wealth," Games Econ. Behav. 1996, 14, 190-207.
ALTRUISM TO KIN
Bergstrom,
T.C. "On the Evolution of Altruistic Rules for Siblings," Amer.
Econ. Rev. 1995, 85, 58-81.
Bergstrom,
T.C. "Economics in a Family Way," J. Econ. Lit. 1996, 34,
1903-1934.
TIME PREFERENCE
Dasgupta, P.
and Maskin, E. "Uncertainty and Hyperbolic Discounting," Amer.
Econ. Rev. 1995, 95, 1290-1299.
Hansson, I.
and Stuart, C. "Malthusian Selection of Preferences," Amer.
Econ. Rev. 1990, 80, 529-544.
Robson, A and
Samuelson L "The Evolution of Intertemporal Preferences",
American Economic Review 97 (2007), 496-500.
_________________________"The
Evolution of Impatience with Aggregate Uncertainty" WP, Yale
and SFU
Robson, A.J.
and Szentes, B. "Evolution of Time Preference by Natural
Selection: Comment'' American Economic Review forthcoming.
Robson, A.J.,
Szentes, B., and Iantchev, E. "On the Evolution of Time Preference," Chicago
WP (2006)
Rogers, A. "Evolution
of Time Preference by Natural Selection," Amer. Econ. Rev.
1994, 84, 460-481.
Sozou, P. "On
Hyperbolic Discounting and Uncertain Hazard Rates," Proceedings
of the Royal Society of London: Series B 265 (1998), 2015-2020.
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