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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spelling ndltd-netd.ac.za-oai-union.ndltd.org-uct-oai-localhost-11427-119752020-10-06T05:11:18Z A procedure to test human behaviour under producer scrounger conditions Etheredge, George Ross, Don Economics 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. 2015-01-10T13:32:52Z 2015-01-10T13:32:52Z 2012 Master Thesis Masters MSocSci http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11975 eng application/pdf University of Cape Town Faculty of Commerce School of Economics
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A procedure to test human behaviour under producer scrounger conditions
description 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.
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