That individuals contribute in social dilemma interactions even when contributing is costly is a wellestablished observation in the experimental literature. Since a contributor is always strictly worse off than a non-contributor the question is raised if an intrinsic motivation to contribute can survive in an evolutionary setting. Applying stochastic evolutionary dynamics we give conditions for...

Traditional agency theory assumes that managers are egoistic and need incentives to act in the best interests of the firm. As such, agency theory is a key determinant of firm size, capital structure, corporate governance, and firm value. However, traditional theory ignores the fact that some people are virtuous and do not need such incentives. If some employees are selfless, diligent, and have ...

The article begins with a brief history of aesthetic theory. Particular attention is given to the postructuralist ‘aesthetic return’: the resurgence of interest in aesthetics as an ontological foundation for human being­ in-the-world. The disordered individual-as-emergent­ artist-and-artifact, who is at the centre of this ‘aesthetic return’, is then translated into the ‘dis’-organization that i...

medicine more meritorious, but may account for some otherwise surprising lapses. For example he sees Erasistratos as a stepping stone in a harmonious tradition from Hippocrates to Galen, not as the founder of a theory that Galen constantly attacked. This is a view that could hardly be taken by anyone who had read much Galen for himself. Another stumbling point is the theory of vision. He has st...