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History and cultural evolution: measuring the relationship through the Wikipedia network 历史与文化演变:通过维基百科网络衡量两者之间的关系
IF 2.2 2区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-03-07 DOI: 10.1017/s1744137424000043
Matthew J. Histen

Even at long time horizons, modern outcomes are in some sense bounded by history. Culture shapes how people interact and as it propagates across generations, groups with more common ancestors face less frictions to cooperation. This, in turn, affects institutional and technological diffusion, implying a society's history plays a crucial role in the causes of sustained long-run economic growth. To test this, we follow other studies by proxying for historical effects with genetic relatedness, which yields a temporal proportionality of shared common ancestry. Measuring cultural traits are more challenging. We develop a new systematic measure through network analysis of Wikipedia. Connectivity statistics over the encyclopaedia's hyperlink-directed network captures unique features of cultural relatedness. Further, as we index pages, we can coarsen the network into specific topics. The results show how history correlates broadly over a range of cultural factors. Differences across the coarsened networks demonstrate not simply that history matters, but where it matters less.

即使从长远来看,现代结果在某种意义上也受到历史的制约。文化塑造了人们的互动方式,随着文化的代际传播,拥有更多共同祖先的群体面临的合作摩擦会更少。这反过来又影响了制度和技术的传播,意味着一个社会的历史在长期经济持续增长的原因中起着至关重要的作用。为了验证这一点,我们效仿其他研究,用遗传亲缘关系来替代历史效应,从而得出共同祖先的时间比例。文化特征的测量更具挑战性。我们通过对维基百科的网络分析,开发了一种新的系统测量方法。百科全书超链接导向网络的连接性统计捕捉到了文化相关性的独特特征。此外,由于我们对页面进行了索引,因此可以将网络粗分为特定主题。结果显示了历史如何与一系列文化因素广泛相关。粗略网络之间的差异不仅表明历史很重要,还表明在哪些方面历史不那么重要。
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Hayek's extended mind: on the (im)possibility of Austrian behavioural economics 哈耶克的扩展思维:论奥地利行为经济学的(不)可能性
IF 2.2 2区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-03-07 DOI: 10.1017/s1744137424000055
Erwin Dekker, Blaž Remic
Recent work has argued for a Hayekian behavioural economics, which combines Austrian economics with behavioural economics as developed by Kahneman, Thaler, Sunstein, and others. We suggest that this hybrid is misguided because it relies on individual cognitivism. This view of cognition is incompatible with the Hayekian view of cognition which treats rationality as an emergent phenomenon of social interaction in an institutional environment. This Hayekian view, which we call epistemic institutionalism, is compatible with an alternative prominent perspective in psychology, that of the extended mind, sometimes known as 4E cognition. We demonstrate how the Hayekian perspective on individualism, the price system, and the evolution of rules can be connected to the extended mind programme, through concepts such as the coupling of the individual and their environment, cognitive off-loading, and affordances. We suggest that this alternative combination of Austrian economics and psychology provides a more fruitful way forward, especially because it foregrounds the processes of learning, error-correction, and institutional orders, rather than choice, bias, and individual rationality. To explain why Austrian economists have been receptive to behavioural economics, we distinguish epistemic institutionalism from the (radical) subjectivist approach, which shares key assumptions of individual cognitivism.
最近的研究提出了哈耶克行为经济学,它将奥地利经济学与卡尼曼(Kahneman)、塔勒(Thaler)、孙斯坦(Sunstein)等人提出的行为经济学相结合。我们认为,这种混合是错误的,因为它依赖于个人认知主义。这种认知观与哈耶克的认知观格格不入,后者将理性视为制度环境中社会互动的新兴现象。哈耶克的这一观点,我们称之为认识论制度主义,与心理学中另一种著名的观点--扩展心智(有时也称为 4E 认知)--是相容的。我们展示了哈耶克关于个人主义、价格体系和规则演化的观点如何通过个人与环境的耦合、认知卸载和承受能力等概念与扩展心智方案相联系。我们认为,奥地利经济学与心理学的这种替代性结合提供了一条更富有成果的前进道路,特别是因为它强调的是学习、纠错和制度秩序的过程,而不是选择、偏见和个人理性。为了解释为什么奥地利经济学家乐于接受行为经济学,我们将认识论制度主义与(激进的)主观主义方法区分开来,后者与个人认知主义的关键假设相同。
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Individualism, universalism and climate change 个人主义、普遍主义与气候变化
IF 2.2 2区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-02-20 DOI: 10.1017/s174413742400002x
Elodie Douarin, Tim Hinks
Is ‘individualism’ pure selfishness? The climate change literature often assumes so. However, individualism can be seen as capturing values aligned with self-determination and self-achievement but also universalism. Indeed, cultural psychology recognises individualism as reflecting both personal agency and one's embeddedness, not in narrowly defined in-groups, but in society broadly. Through this lens, individualism can be consistent with adopting pro-social behaviours, including climate-friendly behaviours. But the under-exploration of the concept means empirical evidence is limited. Using cross-country, cross-sectional data we find that individualistic values are associated with an increased willingness to take individual-level actions against climate change. Individualism is also not associated with less support for additional taxes levied to fight climate change, and those willing to take more individual level actions against climate change are also more supportive of additional climate change taxes. Overall, our results confirm that individualism can be associated with taking actions for the greater good.
个人主义 "是纯粹的自私吗?气候变化方面的文献常常这么认为。然而,个人主义可以被视为包含了与自我决定和自我成就相一致的价值观,同时也包含了普遍主义。事实上,文化心理学认为,个人主义既反映了个人的能动性,也反映了个人的嵌入性,不是嵌入狭义的内部群体,而是嵌入广义的社会。从这个角度看,个人主义与采取亲社会行为(包括气候友好行为)是一致的。但是,对这一概念的探索不足意味着经验证据有限。通过使用跨国横截面数据,我们发现个人主义价值观与采取个人行动应对气候变化的意愿增加有关。个人主义也与较少支持为应对气候变化而征收额外税收无关,而那些愿意采取更多个人层面行动应对气候变化的人也更支持征收额外的气候变化税。总之,我们的研究结果证实,个人主义可能与为更大利益而采取行动有关。
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Mapping inflation to economic freedom in the post-COVID era 后《经济、社会、文化权利国际公约》时代通货膨胀与经济自由的关系
IF 2.2 2区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-02-16 DOI: 10.1017/s1744137424000018
Ryan H. Murphy
The Economic Freedom of the World report measures five dimensions of economic freedom, one of them being Sound Money. Compared to where it had been in decades for most of the West, inflation skyrocketed in 2021. Yet the indicator which measures inflation in the most recent year barely budged due to how it is specified and parameterized. This paper explores potential improvements on the methodology, although ultimately only modest improvements are achieved over simply changing the value of inflation that corresponds to zero (the lowest index score) in the simplest linear specification.
世界经济自由度》报告从五个方面衡量经济自由度,其中之一是健全的货币。与大多数西方国家几十年来的情况相比,2021 年的通货膨胀率急剧上升。然而,衡量最近一年通胀率的指标却几乎没有变化,原因在于其指定和参数化的方式。本文探讨了改进该方法的可能性,尽管与简单改变最简单的线性规格中对应于零(最低指数得分)的通胀值相比,最终只能取得适度的改进。
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Yoram Barzel: commemorating the life of an institutional economist 约拉姆-巴尔泽尔:纪念制度经济学家的一生
IF 2.2 2区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-02-15 DOI: 10.1017/s1744137424000031
Douglas W. Allen
Yoram Barzel was a Chicago trained price theorist who became a foundational contributor to the literature on property rights and transaction costs. In this commemoration I outline the academic path he took, but then concentrate on the set of transformative ideas he had that led to ‘the theory of economic property rights’. It was Yoram's belief that such a theory is the ground floor for the study of the organization of economic activity, and therefore, should be used to understand the structure and form of law, institutions, firms, and all other forms of organization.
约拉姆-巴尔泽尔是芝加哥培养出来的价格理论家,是产权和交易成本文献的奠基人。在这篇纪念文章中,我概述了他所走过的学术道路,然后重点介绍了他提出的一系列变革性观点,这些观点导致了 "经济产权理论 "的诞生。约拉姆认为,这种理论是研究经济活动组织的基础,因此应该用来理解法律、机构、公司和所有其他组织形式的结构和形式。
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Legitimacy of government and governance 政府和治理的合法性
IF 2.2 2区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-01-30 DOI: 10.1017/s1744137423000334
Imran Arif, Nabamita Dutta
This paper highlights scholarly neglect of political legitimacy, the idea of a state's use of power in ways acceptable to its citizens. We argue that political legitimacy affects a state's ability to formulate and implement its policies, thus affecting governance. Our paper provides the first empirical evidence of the positive relationship between political legitimacy and governance. We combine novel cross-sectional data on political legitimacy and several governance indicators from 66 countries. Our results show that a one-standard-deviation increase in the legitimacy score increases the rule of law indicator by about one-third standard deviation. These results are robust across OLS, an instrumental variable method, and several other governance indicators. Moreover, our results reveal that in the presence of greater trust, political legitimacy has an enhanced impact on governance.
本文强调了学术界对政治合法性的忽视,即国家以公民可接受的方式使用权力的理念。我们认为,政治合法性会影响一个国家制定和执行政策的能力,从而影响治理。我们的论文首次提供了政治合法性与治理之间积极关系的实证证据。我们结合了来自 66 个国家的有关政治合法性和若干治理指标的新型横截面数据。我们的结果表明,合法性得分每增加一个标准差,法治指标就会增加约三分之一个标准差。这些结果在 OLS、工具变量法和其他几个治理指标上都是稳健的。此外,我们的结果表明,在信任度较高的情况下,政治合法性对治理的影响更大。
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A needs theory of governance: taking transaction cost theory back to humanistic economics and self-actualisation 治理的需求理论:让交易成本理论回归人文经济学和自我实现
IF 2.2 2区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-01-26 DOI: 10.1017/s1744137423000401
Silvia Sacchetti, Ermanno Tortia
In this paper we seek to integrate human needs and self-actualisation into the design of organisational governance. We problematise the assumptions that guide established justifications for governance, thus providing an opportunity for this type of theoretical approach. Drawing on Maslow's human psychology, we consider the potentially regressive features of the prescriptions of transaction cost theory (TCT), particularly the new institutionalist approach, and suggest inclusiveness as a mode of coordination that firms may wish to pursue to enhance self-actualisation. The main value added of this contribution is to highlight the need to discern among modes of governance design, using criteria of welfare maximisation by enabling opportunities for self-actualisation within the firm, different from the TCT focus on internal efficiency.
在本文中,我们试图将人类需求和自我实现融入组织治理的设计中。我们对指导既定治理理由的假设提出质疑,从而为这种理论方法提供了一个契机。借鉴马斯洛的人类心理学,我们考虑了交易成本理论(TCT),特别是新制度主义方法的潜在倒退特征,并提出包容性是企业可能希望追求的一种协调模式,以增强自我实现。这一贡献的主要附加值在于,它强调有必要通过在企业内部提供自我实现的机会,利用福利最大化的标准来辨别治理设计的模式,这不同于交易成本理论对内部效率的关注。
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The institutional environment and gig platform transaction cost solutions 制度环境和千兆平台交易成本解决方案
IF 2.2 2区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-01-25 DOI: 10.1017/s1744137423000383
Svetlana Golovanova, Eduardo Pontual Ribeiro, Evgeny Styrin, Ivan Makarov
A growing number of labour market participants transact through gig platforms. This choice should reflect a reduction in transaction costs for platform users, compared to costs they meet when using alternative modes of governance. We exploit a unique cross-platform, cross-country data set of gig platform users to test the impact of the institutional environment in one of its dimensions – the strictness of labour market regulation (LMR) – on the ability of gig platforms to reduce users' transaction costs. According to our findings, the regulation indicator of both the user and platform countries influences transaction costs for platform users, even controlling for platform and user characteristics. The platform appears to reduce transaction costs most when users face stricter or weaker LMR, in a U-shaped effect. In the former case, the platform may provide an escape from labour regulations when hiring for tasks, while in the latter case, the platform can economize on the usual transaction costs of private contracting by administrating some types of users' activities.
越来越多的劳动力市场参与者通过演出平台进行交易。与使用其他治理模式时的成本相比,这种选择应反映出平台用户交易成本的降低。我们利用一个独特的跨平台、跨国家的演出平台用户数据集,检验了制度环境的一个维度--劳动力市场监管(LMR)的严格程度--对演出平台降低用户交易成本能力的影响。根据我们的研究结果,即使控制了平台和用户的特征,用户和平台所在国的监管指标也会影响平台用户的交易成本。当用户面临更严格或更薄弱的 LMR 时,平台似乎能最大程度地降低交易成本,呈 U 型效应。在前一种情况下,平台可以在招聘任务时逃避劳动法规的约束,而在后一种情况下,平台可以通过管理某些类型的用户活动来节约私人订约的通常交易成本。
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Ancestral institutions and the salience of African ethnicity: Theory and Evidence 祖先制度和非洲种族的显著性:理论与证据
IF 2.2 2区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-01-15 DOI: 10.1017/s1744137423000371
Abreham Adera
This paper advances a pre-colonial institutional thesis to explain the variation in the salience of ethnicity in African societies. It posits that pre-colonial political centralization facilitated the accumulation of economic and institutional advantages, positioning descendants of centralized ethnic groups to benefit from these advantages within postcolonial states. Social identity choices are rational; therefore, descendants of centralized ethnic groups, who enjoy greater advantages within the nation, find less incentive to choose their ethnicity over their national identity. Examples from Ethiopia and Ghana as well as the evidence from combining individual-level survey data from the Afrobarometer with historical data on pre-colonial political centralization support the theoretical claim. In particular, the paper presents both theory and evidence indicating that individuals with ancestors from politically centralized pre-colonial societies are less likely to favour their ethnic identity over their national identity . These findings underscore the importance of considering pre-colonial legacies when promoting national unity.
本文提出了一个殖民前制度论,以解释非洲社会中种族问题突出程度的差异。本文认为,前殖民时期的政治集权促进了经济和制度优势的积累,使集权族群的后裔在后殖民国家中受益于这些优势。社会身份的选择是理性的;因此,在国家内部享有更大优势的中央集权族群的后裔发现,选择其种族身份而非国家身份的动力较小。埃塞俄比亚和加纳的例子以及将非洲晴雨表(Afrobarometer)的个人层面调查数据与殖民前政治集权的历史数据相结合所得出的证据支持了这一理论主张。特别是,本文提出的理论和证据表明,祖先来自殖民前政治集权社会的个人不太可能倾向于民族身份而非国家身份。这些发现强调了在促进民族团结时考虑殖民前遗留问题的重要性。
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Determinants of social norms II – religion and family as mediators 社会规范的决定因素 II--宗教和家庭是调解因素
IF 2.2 2区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-01-08 DOI: 10.1017/S174413742300036X
Stefan Voigt
Abstract It is now abundantly clear that social norms channel behaviour and impact economic development. This insight leads to the question: How do social norms evolve? In a companion paper (Voigt (2023). Journal of Institutional Economics, 20), I survey studies showing that geographical conditions can have direct and long-lasting effects on social norms. This paper goes one step further: It surveys studies that show how different geographical conditions affect both religious beliefs as well as traditions of family organization and how these, in turn, affect social norms.
摘要 现在已经非常清楚,社会规范会引导行为并影响经济发展。这一观点引出了一个问题:社会规范是如何演变的?在另一篇论文(Voigt (2023).Journal of Institutional Economics, 20)中,我对一些研究进行了调查,这些研究表明,地理条件会对社会规范产生直接而持久的影响。本文则更进一步:本文调查的研究表明,不同的地理条件如何影响宗教信仰和家庭组织传统,以及这些如何反过来影响社会规范。
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