Artikel
Information, evolution and utility
Human utility embodies a number of seemingly irrational aspects. The leading example in this paper is that utilities often depend on the presence of salient unchosen alternatives. Our focus is to understand why an evolutionary process might optimally lead to such seemingly dysfunctional features in our motivations and to derive implications for the nature of our utility functions.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: Theoretical Economics ; ISSN: 1555-7561 ; Volume: 1 ; Year: 2006 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 119-142 ; New York, NY: The Econometric Society
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Game Theory and Bargaining Theory: General
Noncooperative Games
Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty: General
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- Subject
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Evolution
information
internal conflict
self control
temptation
time consistency
utility
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Swinkels, Jeroen M.
Samuelson, Larry
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Veröffentlichung
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The Econometric Society
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New York, NY
- (when)
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2006
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Associated
- Swinkels, Jeroen M.
- Samuelson, Larry
- The Econometric Society
Time of origin
- 2006
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