The American Economic Association, which is supposed to be the most prestigious professional association of economists in the world, just published Becker, Enke and Falk's "Ancient Origins of the Global Variation in Economic Preferences". They hypothesize that 'differential historical experiences that have accumulated over thousands of years of separation might have given rise to different preferences as of today' so that some populations are more thrifty, patient, risk-averse, altruistic or trusting than others. They expect behavioral differences between populations to be at least in part genetic.
What Ancient Origins of Economic Preferences?
What Ancient Origins of Economic Preferences?
What Ancient Origins of Economic Preferences?
The American Economic Association, which is supposed to be the most prestigious professional association of economists in the world, just published Becker, Enke and Falk's "Ancient Origins of the Global Variation in Economic Preferences". They hypothesize that 'differential historical experiences that have accumulated over thousands of years of separation might have given rise to different preferences as of today' so that some populations are more thrifty, patient, risk-averse, altruistic or trusting than others. They expect behavioral differences between populations to be at least in part genetic.