Journal of Bioeconomics

2000 - 2023

Current editor(s): Ulrich Witt, Michael T. Ghiselin and David Sloan Wilson

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Volume 18, issue 3, 2016

Assortative mating in the online market for sperm donation pp. 169-194

Stephen Whyte and Benno Torgler

Economics and evolutionary mismatch: humans in novel settings do not maximize pp. 195-209

Terence C. Burnham

The transformations of utility theory: a behavioral perspective pp. 211-228

Ulrich Witt

Culture, conflict, and the birth of a cooperative species pp. 229-232

Karthik Panchanathan

Joanna Masel: Bypass Wall Street: A biologist’s guide to the rat race pp. 233-237

Jonathan Wight

Review of Ultra Society: how 10,000 years of war made humans the greatest cooperators on earth, Beresta Books, LCC, Connecticut, 2016 by Peter Turchin pp. 239-242

Mark Koyama

George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller: Phishing for phools: the economics of manipulation and deception pp. 243-246

Leonhard Lades

Volume 18, issue 2, 2016

Introduction pp. 87-93

Janet T. Landa and Michael T. Ghiselin

Honoring a pioneer: Gordon Tullock (1922–2014) pp. 95-96

Peter A. Corning

Remembering Gordon Tullock pp. 97-98

Robert Tollison

Understanding Gordon Tullock pp. 99-102

Nicolaus Tideman

Reminiscing about Gordon Tullock pp. 103-106

Victor P. Goldberg

Gordon Tullock as a teacher and mentor pp. 107-111

Thomas R. Ireland

Fond memories of professor Gordon Tullock pp. 113-114

Zhaofeng Xue

Memories of an altruist who denied the importance of altruism pp. 115-116

Bernard Grofman

The memorable Gordon Tullock pp. 117-119

Yew-Kwang Ng

Gordon Tullock: A Nobel Prize left unbestowed pp. 121-127

Kjell Hausken

“Remembrance of things past”: Gordon Tullock, the man and the bioeconomist pp. 129-136

Janet T. Landa

Rent-seeking and the tragedy of the commons: two approaches to problems of collective action in biology and economics pp. 137-151

Jason Oakes

What is sexual selection? A rent-seeking approach pp. 153-158

Michael T. Ghiselin

A study on abdominal wagging in the fire ant, Solenopsis invicta, with speculation on its meaning pp. 159-167

Deby Cassill, Krista Ford, Lieu Huynh, Daniel Shiffman and S. Bradleigh Vinson

Volume 18, issue 1, 2016

Using traffic data to estimate wildlife populations pp. 17-31

Ing-Marie Gren, Tobias Häggmark-Svensson, Hans Andersson, Gunnar Jansson and Annika Jägerbrand

Genetic distance and cognitive human capital: a cross-national investigation pp. 33-51

Oasis Kodila-Tedika and Simplice Asongu

Creatine and entrepreneurship pp. 53-64

Cornelius A. Rietveld, Petri Böckerman, Jutta Viinikainen, Alex Bryson, Olli Raitakari and Jaakko Pehkonen

Volume 17, issue 3, 2015

Social Biomimicry: what do ants and bees tell us about organization in the natural world? pp. 207-216

Jennifer Fewell

When doing nothing is something. How task allocation strategies compromise between flexibility, efficiency, and inactive agents pp. 217-242

Daniel Charbonneau and Anna Dornhaus

Float like a butterfly, $${\varvec{decide}}$$ d e c i d e like a bee pp. 243-254

Sven Grüner, Anica Fietz and Antje Jantsch

What can ants tell us about collective behavior during a natural catastrophe? pp. 255-270

Deby Cassill, Alexander Casella, Jaeson Clayborn, Matthew Perry and Michael Lagarde

The architecture of subterranean ant nests: beauty and mystery underfoot pp. 271-291

Walter Tschinkel

Samir Okasha, and Ken Binmore (eds): Evolution and rationality: decisions, co-operation and strategic behaviour pp. 293-297

Frederick Adler

Wilson revisits group selection pp. 299-302

Benjamin Hardisty

Jared Diamond: The world until yesterday: what can we learn from traditional societies? pp. 303-307

Bruce Winterhalder

Equipping non-utilitarian automata with unnatural morality: a review of Joshua Greene’s Moral tribes pp. 309-312

Sergio Beraldo

Nicholas Wade: A troublesome inheritance: Genes, race and human history pp. 313-319

Walter Block

Volume 17, issue 2, 2015

Regulating invasive species with different life history pp. 113-136

Katarina Elofsson and Ing-Marie Gren

On the bioeconomics of shame and guilt pp. 137-149

Klaus Jaffe, Astrid Flórez, Marcos Manzanares, Rodolfo Jaffe, Cristina Gomes, Daniel Rodríguez and Carla Achury

Selection criteria in the search for a sperm donor: behavioural traits versus physical appearance pp. 151-171

Stephen Whyte and Benno Torgler

Public goods with high-powered punishment: high cooperation and low efficiency pp. 173-187

Terence Burnham

Sexual selection, conspicuous consumption and economic growth pp. 189-206

Jason Collins, Boris Baer and Ernst Weber

Volume 17, issue 1, 2015

Editorial note on “Evolutionary biology arguments in political economy” pp. 1-2

Ulrich Witt

The evolution of Darwinian liberalism pp. 3-15

Larry Arnhart

The evolution of human nature and its implications for politics: a critique pp. 17-36

Thomas Reydon

Human ultrasociality and the invisible hand: foundational developments in evolutionary science alter a foundational concept in economics pp. 37-52

David Wilson and John Gowdy

Does classical liberalism imply an evolutionary approach to policy-making? pp. 53-70

Jan Schnellenbach

Can a hypothetical ‘innate proclivity to hierarchically structured political systems’ explain real authoritarian/totalitarian regimes? pp. 71-81

Georgy Levit

The garden of orderly polity: F. A. Hayek and T. H. Huxley’s views on social evolution pp. 83-96

Naomi Beck

John Stuart Mill: evolutionary economics and liberalism pp. 97-111

Margaret Schabas

Volume 16, issue 3, 2014

Increasing cooperation among plants, symbionts, and farmers is key to past and future progress in agriculture pp. 223-238

R. Denison

Social dilemmas, time preferences and technology adoption in a commons problem pp. 239-258

Reinoud Joosten

Parallel experimentation: a basic scheme for dynamic efficiency pp. 259-287

David Ellerman

Optimum reserve size, fishing induced change in carrying capacity, and phenotypic diversity pp. 289-304

Wisdom Akpalu and Worku Bitew

Peter Hammerstein and Jeffrey R. Stevens (eds.): Evolution and the mechanisms of decision making pp. 305-309

Gary Brase

Herbert Gintis: The bounds of reason: Game theory and the unification of the behavioral sciences pp. 311-315

Geoffrey Hodgson

Thomas Nagel: Mind & Cosmos: Why the materialist neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false pp. 317-319

Michael Ghiselin

Marc van Vugt and Anjana Ahuja, Naturally selected: the evolutionary science of leadership pp. 321-324

Georg Schwesinger

Telling the wood from the trees in the forest of synthesis pp. 325-328

Jason Potts

Book Reviews pp. 329-334

Leonhard Lades

Volume 16, issue 2, 2014

Applying evolutionary theory to human behaviour: past differences and current debates pp. 105-128

Gillian Brown and Peter Richerson

Prosociality and the military pp. 129-154

Alexander Field

More or better? Measuring quality versus quantity in food consumption pp. 155-178

Corinna Manig and Alessio Moneta

Agriculture as a major evolutionary transition to human ultrasociality pp. 179-202

John Gowdy and Lisi Krall

Love, war and cultures: a reply to my commentators pp. 203-211

Ugo Pagano

Removing biases in forecasts of fishery status pp. 213-219

Christopher Costello, Olivier Deschenes, Ashley Larsen and Steven Gaines

Response to removing biases in forecasts of fishery status pp. 221-222

U. Srinivasan, William Cheung, Reg Watson and Ussif Sumaila

Volume 16, issue 1, 2014

Editorial note pp. 1-2

Ulrich Witt

Do institutions for collective action evolve? pp. 3-30

Elinor Ostrom

Cultural species and their ecosystems pp. 31-38

David Wilson

A theory of socio-ecological system change pp. 39-44

R. Costanza

Governing the commons: future directions for the Ostrom Project pp. 45-51

Thráinn Eggertsson

Do institutions evolve? pp. 53-60

Avner Greif

Evolution, institutions, and human well-being: perspectives from a critical social anthropology pp. 61-69

Chris Hann

Sustainable cooperation needs tinkering with both rules and social motivation pp. 71-81

Siegwart Lindenberg

The diversity of institutional rules as engine of change pp. 83-90

Claude Menard

How far does evolution take us? Comment on Elinor Ostrom’s: do institutions for collective action evolve? pp. 91-98

Amy Poteete

Collective action, institutional design and evolutionary “blindness” pp. 99-104

Viktor Vanberg