A procedure to test human behaviour under producer scrounger conditions

Includes abstract. === Includes bibliographical references. === This paper examines the applicability of the ‘producer scrounger’ model, used in the biological literature to model social foraging, to human beings. It is argued that humans do find themselves in economically important situations that...

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Main Author: Etheredge, George
Other Authors: Ross, Don
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11975
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Summary:Includes abstract. === Includes bibliographical references. === This paper examines the applicability of the ‘producer scrounger’ model, used in the biological literature to model social foraging, to human beings. It is argued that humans do find themselves in economically important situations that can be described by the producer scrounger dynamic.