At the conclusion of 2017, to the dismay of journalists, pundits, and academics, large numbers of adolescents began consuming Tide Pods, a form of laundry detergent that is candy-like in appearance. This paper argues that purposeful consumption of laundry detergent may in fact be individually rational for adolescents. The consumption of Tide Pods may allow adolescents to successfully signal status in accordance with the Handicap Principle, which explains the beauty of a peacock’s tail and the practice of stotting by gazelles in the wild. The Handicap Principle is also a common explanation of adolescents’ willingness to engage in dangerous activities, like drug use. A subtext of the thesis of this paper is the veracity of rational choice explanations in unconventional contexts distant from its original applications.
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Pub Date : 2018-04-05DOI: 10.1007/S10818-018-9275-1
Joshua Henkel
{"title":"Joseph Henrich’s: The secret of our success—how culture is driving human evolution, domesticating our species, and making us smarter","authors":"Joshua Henkel","doi":"10.1007/S10818-018-9275-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/S10818-018-9275-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35608,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Bioeconomics","volume":"20 1","pages":"331-334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/S10818-018-9275-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44016317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-02-22DOI: 10.1007/s10818-018-9271-5
A. Peshkovskaya, Tatiana S Babkina, M. Myagkov
{"title":"Social context reveals gender differences in cooperative behavior","authors":"A. Peshkovskaya, Tatiana S Babkina, M. Myagkov","doi":"10.1007/s10818-018-9271-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-018-9271-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35608,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Bioeconomics","volume":"20 1","pages":"213 - 225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10818-018-9271-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52349299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-02-20DOI: 10.1007/s10818-018-9270-6
L. M. Castro, F. Härtl, Santiago Ochoa, Baltazar Calvas, Leonardo Izquierdo, T. Knoke
{"title":"Integrated bio-economic models as tools to support land-use decision making: a review of potential and limitations","authors":"L. M. Castro, F. Härtl, Santiago Ochoa, Baltazar Calvas, Leonardo Izquierdo, T. Knoke","doi":"10.1007/s10818-018-9270-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-018-9270-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35608,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Bioeconomics","volume":"20 1","pages":"183 - 211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10818-018-9270-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52349273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-01-11DOI: 10.1007/s10818-018-9269-z
J. Vromen
{"title":"Rethinking economic evolution: essays on economic change and its theory (Edward Elgar 2016)","authors":"J. Vromen","doi":"10.1007/s10818-018-9269-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-018-9269-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35608,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Bioeconomics","volume":"20 1","pages":"257 - 260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10818-018-9269-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52349236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.1007/s10818-017-9259-6
P. Zak
{"title":"The evolutionary origins of cooperation and trade","authors":"P. Zak","doi":"10.1007/s10818-017-9259-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-017-9259-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35608,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Bioeconomics","volume":"20 1","pages":"179 - 181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10818-017-9259-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52349139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-11-30DOI: 10.1007/s10818-017-9268-5
T. Burnham
{"title":"She who understands the fruit fly would do more for economics than Adam Smith: introduction to the special issue","authors":"T. Burnham","doi":"10.1007/s10818-017-9268-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-017-9268-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35608,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Bioeconomics","volume":"20 1","pages":"1 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10818-017-9268-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41413758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-11-29DOI: 10.1007/s10818-017-9261-z
Mellissa Marcus, T. Burnham, D. Stephens, A. Dunlap
{"title":"Experimental evolution of color preference for oviposition in Drosophila melanogaster","authors":"Mellissa Marcus, T. Burnham, D. Stephens, A. Dunlap","doi":"10.1007/s10818-017-9261-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-017-9261-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35608,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Bioeconomics","volume":"20 1","pages":"125 - 140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10818-017-9261-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47603957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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