Rationality and intertemporal choice

Gifford, Adam

doi:10.1007/s10818-009-9068-7

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“…Un análisis amplio de las consecuencias de los modelos descriptivos (hiperbólico y cuasihiperbólico) para la teoría de la elección racional, que da cuenta de evidencia acumulada en los pasados 30 años de investigación, fue hecha recientemente por Gifford (2009). Si bien el tema excede el alcance de este artículo, vale la pena abordarlo antes de analizar la aportación de la neurociencia al estudio de las decisiones intertemporales.…”

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Preferencia temporal en el cerebro: Una revisión crítica de las contribuciones de la neuroeconomía al estudio de la elección intertemporal

2012

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RESUMENLas decisiones humanas suelen implicar costos y beneficios distribuidos en el tiempo. Este artículo revisa el estado actual de la investigación con neuroimagen acerca de la manera en que el cerebro produce decisiones intertemporales. Se propone que mientras resulta poco probable que la neurociencia sea el terreno adecuado para decidir entre los modelos formales propuestos por la economía conductual, los recientes avances en el estudio del cerebro ofrecen la posibilidad de enriquecer dichos modelos incorporando nuevos conocimientos respecto a cómo el cerebro representa magnitudes, atribuye valor, regula conductas orientadas a metas y genera pensamiento prospectivo. ABSTRACTHuman decision-making tends to involve costs and benefits distributed over time. This article reviews the current state of neuroimaging research on how the brain produces inter-temporal choices. It is proposed that while it is unlikely that neu-

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Preferencia temporal en el cerebro: Una revisión crítica de las contribuciones de la neuroeconomía al estudio de la elección intertemporal

2012

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Love, war and cultures: an institutional approach to human evolution

Pagano

2012

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Love, war and culture have all played an important role in the evolution of human institutions and they have been characterized by complex relationships. War can select unselfish groups ready to sacrifice themselves for the love of their communities that they recognize to be culturally different from the others. At the same time, horizontal cultural differentiation cannot be taken for granted. Culture is the outcome of long evolutionary processes. It requires some human specific characteristics, including a large brain, that are likely to have been influenced by sexual selection and by the peculiar structure of human love affairs. Thus, if war may have generated love, also the reverse may be true: by favoring the development of human culture, love may have produced the conditions for war among culturally differentiated groups. In turn, war may have co-evolved with group solidarity only under the prevailing social arrangements of hunting and gathering economies. In general, human relations have been influenced by the prevailing features of the goods (private, public and positional) that have characterized production in different stages of history. They have been embedded in institutions involving very different levels of inequality, ranging from mostly egalitarian hunting and gathering societies to typically hierarchical agrarian societies and to wealth-differentiated industrial societies. The perspectives of the present-day knowledge-intensive economy can also be seen through the same institutional approach to human evolution. The different nature of contemporary production processes involves a new set of alternative possible arrangements that have different implications for social (in)equality and different capabilities to satisfy basic human needs

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