On the Limited Policy Relevance of Evolutionary Explanations

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cass R. Sunstein
Keyword(s):  
Policy Relevance ◽  
Evolutionary Explanations

Folk-economic beliefs as moral intuitions

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Malhotra
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Moral Intuitions ◽  
Economic Beliefs ◽  
Evolutionary Explanations

AbstractAlthough Boyer & Petersen's (B&P's) cataloguing of and evolutionary explanations for folk-economic beliefs is important and valuable, the authors fail to connect their theories to existing explanations for why people do not think like economists. For instance, people often have moral intuitions akin to principles of fairness and justice that conflict with utilitarian approaches to resource allocation.

The how and the why of the human inability to accept evolutionary explanations.

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 336-341
Author(s):  
Ivana Hromatko ◽  
Josip Hrgović
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Explanations

scholarly journals Testing evolutionary explanations for the lifespan benefit of dietary restriction in fruit flies ( Drosophila melanogaster )

Evolution ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eevi Savola ◽  
Clara Montgomery ◽  
Fergal M. Waldron ◽  
Katy M. Monteith ◽  
Pedro Vale ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Dietary Restriction ◽  
Fruit Flies ◽  
Evolutionary Explanations

The generalization of intergroup contact effects: Emerging research, policy relevance, and future directions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Boin ◽  
Mirjana Rupar ◽  
Sylvie Graf ◽  
Sybille Neji ◽  
Olivia Spiegler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Policy ◽  
Intergroup Contact ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Policy Relevance ◽  
Contact Effects

What policy relevance can mean

1983 ◽  
Vol 1983 (20) ◽  
pp. 107-112
Author(s):  
Francis X. Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Policy Relevance

scholarly journals Policy relevance of the health expectancy indicator; an inventory in European Union countries

Health Policy ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry P.A. van de Water ◽  
Rom J.M. Perenboom ◽  
Hendriek C. Boshuizen
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Health Expectancy ◽  
Policy Relevance ◽  
European Union Countries

What is the Evolutionary Advantage of Migraine?

Cephalalgia ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 22 (8) ◽  
pp. 624-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Loder
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Natural Selection ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Genetic Factors ◽  
Evolutionary Perspective ◽  
Defence Mechanism ◽  
Design Constraint ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Evolutionary Advantage ◽  
Evolutionary Explanations

Susceptibility to migraine is determined by genetic factors and is therefore subject to the forces of natural selection. Migraine is a common and ancient disorder whose prevalence may be increasing, suggesting that a migraine-prone nervous system may be associated with reproductive or survival advantages. Five evolutionary explanations are reviewed that might account for the persistence of migraine: (i) migraine as a defence mechanism; (ii) migraine as a result of conflict with other organisms; (iii) migraine as result of novel environmental factors; (iv) migraine as a trade-off between genetic harms and benefits; and (v) migraine as a design constraint. An evolutionary perspective on migraine allows the generation of important hypotheses about the disorder and suggests rewarding possibilities for further research.

Institutions and development: the primacy of microanalysis

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
MWANGI S. KIMENYI
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Policy Relevance ◽  
Microeconomic Analysis ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Economic Development Theory ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Abstract:In recent years, there have been major advances in the empirical analysis of the link between institutions and development. However, a number of methodological problems – both theoretical and empirical – remain unresolved and have been well articulated by Ha-Joon Chang in his article ‘Institutions and Economic Development: Theory, Policy and History’. These problems raise valid concerns about the policy relevance of the evidence arising from the studies. A more reliable approach to study the link between institutions and development and overcome the inherent problems of cross-country empirical analysis is to direct focus to microeconomic analysis of institutions. Such an approach avoids ideologically driven normative judgments about the superiority of particular institutional arrangements and also offers a more credible and tractable avenue to investigate institutional change.

The new economic geography and policy relevance

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Martin ◽  
P. Sunley
Keyword(s):  
Economic Geography ◽  
New Economic Geography ◽  
Policy Relevance
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