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Behavioral economics and climate change policy by Gowdy, John M.

“…The policy recommendations of most economists are based on the rational actor model. The emphasis is on achieving efficient allocation by insuring that…”
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Environmental degradation and happiness by Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada, Gowdy, John M.

“…The focus of this paper is the relationship between subjective measures of well-being and individual environmental attitudes. We use an ordered probit model to…”
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Darwinian Economics by Gowdy, John

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Soil “Ecosystem” Services and Natural Capital: Critical Appraisal of Research on Uncertain Ground by Baveye, Philippe C., Baveye, Jacques, Gowdy, John

“…Over the last few years, considerable attention has been devoted in the scientific literature and in the media to the concept of "ecosystem" services of soils…”
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Evolution as a general theoretical framework for economics and public policy by Wilson, David Sloan, Gowdy, John M.

“…Economic and evolutionary thinking have been entwined throughout their histories, but evolutionary theory does not function as a general theoretical framework…”
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A multilevel evolutionary framework for sustainability analysis by Waring, Timothy M., Kline Ann, Michelle, Brooks, Jeremy S., Goff, Sandra H., Gowdy, John, Janssen, Marco A., Smaldino, Paul E., Jacquet, Jennifer

“…Sustainability theory can help achieve desirable social-ecological states by generalizing lessons across contexts and improving the design of sustainability…”
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Improving the Recognition of Eating Gestures Using Intergesture Sequential Dependencies by Ramos-Garcia, Raul I., Muth, Eric R., Gowdy, John N., Hoover, Adam W.

“…This paper considers the problem of recognizing eating gestures by tracking wrist motion. Eating gestures are activities commonly undertaken during the…”
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The evolution of social and moral behavior: Evolutionary insights for public policy by Manner, Mikko, Gowdy, John

“…This paper explores the evolution of humans as social beings and the implications of this for economic theory and policy. A major flaw in Walrasian economics…”
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Toward a new welfare economics for sustainability by Gowdy, John

“…The debate over various definitions of sustainability has for the most part been conducted within the framework of traditional welfare economics. Discussion…”
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The evolution of hyperbolic discounting: Implications for truly social valuation of the future by Gowdy, John, Rosser, J. Barkley, Roy, Loraine

“…We explore the standard expected utility model and alternatives to it. We then examine the behavioral and neurological evidence for hyperbolic discounting. We…”
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Agriculture as a major evolutionary transition to human ultrasociality by Gowdy, John, Krall, Lisi

“…The adoption of agriculture was one of the most momentous transformations in human history. It set into motion forces that changed our species from living in…”
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Human ultrasociality and the invisible hand: foundational developments in evolutionary science alter a foundational concept in economics by Wilson, David Sloan, Gowdy, John M.

“…Advances in the study of social behavior require a revision in the economic concept of the invisible hand, which states that self-interested behavior leads to…”
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Toward an experimental foundation for benefit-cost analysis by Gowdy, John M.

“…Empirical results from experimental economics and neuroscience have uncovered regularities in human behavior that may provide a base for new approaches to…”
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A group selection perspective on economic behavior, institutions and organizations by van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M., Gowdy, John M.

“…This article examines the role of group dynamics and interactions in explaining economic behavior and the evolution of institutions. Our starting point is the…”
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The approach of ecological economics by Gowdy, John, Erickson, Jon D.

“…This paper discusses the major tenets of ecological economics—including value pluralism, methodological pluralism and multi-criteria policy assessment…”
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Economic cosmology and the evolutionary challenge by Gowdy, John M., Dollimore, Denise E., Wilson, David Sloan, Witt, Ulrich

“…The intellectual histories of economics and evolutionary biology are closely intertwined because both subjects deal with living, complex, evolving systems…”
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Use of baseband phase structure to improve the performance of current speech enhancement algorithms by Patil, Sanjay P., Gowdy, John N.

“…•We model voiced speech using sinusoidal harmonic model.•Speech is transformed into baseband STFT domain to identify the noise dominant DFT bins.•Noise…”
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The Revolution in Welfare Economics and Its Implications for Environmental Valuation and Policy by Gowdy, John M.

“…Two research programs are brought together to contribute to the growing body of work on alternatives to standard welfare-based approaches to environmental…”
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Our hunter-gatherer future: Climate change, agriculture and uncivilization by Gowdy, John

“…•The stable climate of the Holocene made agriculture and civilization possible. The unstable Pleistocene climate made it impossible before then.•Human…”
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Sustainability and benefit–cost analysis: Theoretical assessments and policy options by Gowdy, John M., Howarth, Richard B.

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