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Aestheticism in the theory of custom

The nature of learning processes as well as evolutionary considerations suggest that aesthetic judgement is of central importance in the formation of custom. Learning and extrapolation rely on evaluations of non-instrumental features like simplicity, analogy, straightforwardness, and clarity. Further, learning is particularly effective if it is driven by an active desire to uncover new regularities, rather than merely gathering information in a passive way.From an evolutionary perspective, learning has evolved as an adaptation to fast and transitory environmental changes which cannot be effectively traced by the slow and long-term evolutionary processes which take place on the genetic level. The evolutionary raison d'être of learning is to enable the individual to incessantly search for upcoming new regularities, and to act appropriately on them. As learning depends on aesthetic judgement, the evolutionary selection for learning implies an evolutionary molding of an aesthetic sense, and a preference for patterns and patterned action which ultimately leads to the formation of custom and social learning. The paper presents, thus, an evolutionary underpinning for the behavioral tendencies underlying my theory of custom.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Munich Discussion Paper ; No. 2021-2

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
History of Economic Thought through 1925: Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary
History of Economic Thought since 1925: Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Austrian; Stockholm School
Current Heterodox Approaches: Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary
Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
Austrian; Evolutionary; Institutional
Thema
Institutional economics
evolution
evodevo
evo-devo
aesthetics
variation
selection
institutional economics
social psychology
rule-learning

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Schlicht, Ekkehart
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät
(wo)
München
(wann)
2021

DOI
doi:10.5282/ubm/epub.76603
Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-76603-5
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Schlicht, Ekkehart
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät

Entstanden

  • 2021

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