A bioeconomic study of numeracy and economic calculation

Abstract

Numerical cognition, Economic quantification, Monetary calculation, Iconic and non-iconic representation of cardinality, B52, D02, D23, D83, L14, 017, Z13,

Remoteness equals backwardness? Human capital and market access in the European regions: insights from the long run

“…First, we employ numeracy as a proxy guessed their age to fulfil the census requirements set up by the state. Given that human biology serves as a first aid for calculations (e.g., five fingers on one hand, ten fingers in total), they rounded their ages on 0 and 5 (see also Harper 2008). It has been shown that this rough proxy is well correlated with other standard human capital proxies such as…”

Bioeconomy and Bioeconomics: Are They the Same Thing?

“…He shows that productivity gains lead to national accounts growth and that thrift is a natural biological instinct, not a policy to stimulate growth. Harper (2008) studies an economic agent's capacity to represent the "sizes of sets of economic goods" through different biological and economic characteristics. They found that "systematic numerical cognition" (which is specific to the human brain) in combination with the monetary trading concept helps condense a complex information dataset into a number: the goods' price.…”

Encephalization and division of labor by early humans

“…Notions of relative amounts would play a central role in exchange. Harper (2008) has taken up the question of the development of quantitative representations in persons minds in order for them to engage in monetary exchange. It would not be a stretch to suggest that exchange by humans over hundreds of thousands of years fostered a quantitative sensibility in the minds of humans.…”