The Biological Basis of Economic Behavior

By Arthur J. Robson. 2001

372 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Cro NqvIst
2. Larry Samuelson
3. Andrew W. Lo
4. Thomas Brennan
5. Arthur J. Robson
6. E. Gsottbauer
7. Geoffrey M. Hodgson
8. J. Bergh

In General Decision Sciences

1. Cro NqvIst
2. Larry Samuelson
3. Andrew W. Lo
4. Thomas Brennan
5. Arthur J. Robson
6. Geoffrey M. Hodgson
7. J. Bergh
8. E. Gsottbauer

Citations in the corpus

• The Darwinian Destiny of An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change (2003, background): “Attempts at such biological reductionism in economics include G. Becker (1976), Hirshleifer (1977, 1982) and Robson (2001a, 2001b).”
• Economic Theory and Experimental Economics (2005, background): “Much of this material is nicely covered in Robson [171].”
• The Evolutionary Foundations of Preferences (2011, background): “Robson [121] argues that utility bounds and limited discrimination between utilities”
• The Origin of Behavior (2011, methodology): “11In this respect, our framework differs in a fundamental way from the evolutionary models of Robson (1996a, 2001b), Robson (1996a) Robson (2001b), Robson and Samuelson (2007), and Robson and Szentes (2008) in which evolutionary arguments are used to derive specific utility functions that…”
• Environmental Policy Theory Given Bounded Rationality and Other-regarding Preferences (2011, background): “Recently, Robson (2001), Robson (2002) has written on the biological basis of economic behavior.”
• Coevolution of economic behaviour and institutions: towards a theory of institutional change (2003, neutral): “According to Wilson (1975) all extended social behaviour and organisation 3 Surprisingly, in a review of the biological basis of economic behaviour, Robson (2001, 2002) does not pay any attention to group selection issues. starts with the strong tie between mother and child, which explains why it…”
• Nature or Nurture: What Determines Investor Behavior? (2010, positive): “…in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, 1611, IV.i.188-190 I Introduction It is a well documented empirical fact in the finance literature that there is significant heterogeneity across individuals in terms of investment decisions and financial risk-taking behavior.1 However, little is known about the…”
• Recordkeeping and Human Evolution (2006, neutral): “Recent research also links economics and biology (Alchian 1950; Simon 1962; Becker 1976; Hirshleifer 1977; Smith 1992; Robson 2001 ), and ‘‘neuroeconomics’’ researchers now use brain imaging technologies to directly examine how the human brain functions while making economic decisions (Camerer et a”
• Cognitive Imprecision and Small-Stakes Risk Aversion (2018, neutral): ““Evolutionary” theories of the origin of preferences, such as those of Robson (2001), Rayo and Becker (2007), and Netzer (2009), suggest that this could be possible as well, though it is often unclear over what time scale the “evolution” is thought to occur in such theories. topic for further study.”
• Value versus growth investing: Why do different investors have different styles? (2015, neutral): “Some of the theoretical work by Robson (2001b) addresses very fundamental questions in economics such as why nature has endowed individuals with utility functions.”