Evolution and Bioeconomics

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     Presentation date: 07/15/2005 2:00 PM in ROZH 107
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Abstract
In the first paper entitled 'Evolution on rails: Arguments for Orthogenesis in Historical Perspective’, biologists Popov & Levit provide a survey which will describe and classify the various theories of orthogenesis (concept of directed evolution) as they appear in the history of evolutionary biology, and will discuss the implications for the analysis of economic systems.
In the second paper entitled “Biological Emergences: Implications for Bioeconomics’, biologist Robert Reid proposes a radical change in evolutionary theory. by developing a generative theory of emergent evolution that accounts for general advances in complexity and adaptability, and for the diversifying events consequent to major emergences. The paper will also discuss the implications for bioeconomics.
In the third paper,“A Bioeconomics-Public Choice Theory of Property Rights: Sago Palms as Private Property, bioeconomist Janet Landa discusses Demsetz theory of the the emergence of private hunting ground—out of the commons-- for fur-bearing animals among the Indian tribes living in Quebec. Landa develops a bioeconomics-public choice theory of property rights-- based on an anthropologist’s study of sago palms as private property in a tribal community in Sarawak—and shows that there is another pathway to the emergence of private property.

Multiple Paper Session:
Papers in this session:
A Bioeconomics-Public Choice Theory of Property Rights: Sago Palms as Private Property
Biological Emergences: Implications for Bioeconomics
Evolution on rails: Arguments for Orthogenesis in the Historical Perspective