A biological approach to economics through fertility
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Individual choice of labour supply and fertility is studied, in a simple multi-generational general equilibrium model in which behaviour may be determined by genes. Equilibrium concepts from economics (Nash equilibrium) and biology (evolutionary stability) are linked in three propositions. 2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.
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تاریخ انتشار 1999