Gary Becker’s Altruism Model in Bioeconomic Perspective

Economic perspective of marine reserves in fisheries: a bioeconomic model.

The present paper describes a prey-predator type fishery model with prey dispersal in a two-patch environment, one of which is a free fishing zone and other is protected zone. The objective of the paper is to maximize the net economic revenue earn from the fishery through implementing the sustainable properties of the fishery to keep the ecological balance. Biological measures are introduced to...

Innovation and Sustainable Development: A Bioeconomic Perspective

Sustainability is a relationship, or balancing act, between many factors (social, environmental and economic realities and constraints) that are constantly changing (Munasinghe & McNeely, 1995; Pirages, 1994). Ensuring sustainability over time means maintaining a dynamic balance among a growing human population and its demands, the changing capabilities of the physical environment to absorb the...

Gary Becker: Model Economic Scientist.

This paper presents Gary Becker's approach to conducting creative, empirically fruitful economic research. It describes the traits and methodology that made him such a productive and influential scholar.

Cooperation and Altruism: An Evolutionary Perspective

A proximate perspective on reciprocal altruism.

The study of reciprocal altruism, or the exchange of goods and services between individuals, requires attention to both evolutionary explanations and proximate mechanisms. Evolutionary explanations have been debated at length, but far less is known about the proximate mechanisms of reciprocity. Our own research has focused on the immediate causes and contingencies underlying services such as fo...