| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP5859 |
| DP5859 The Origin of Utility | |
| Gianni De Fraja | |
| 发表日期 | 2006-10-23 |
| 出版年 | 2006 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper proposes an explanation for the universal human desire for increasing consumption. It holds that it was moulded in evolutionary times by a mechanism known to biologists as sexual selection, whereby a certain trait - observable consumption - is used by members of one sex to signal their unobservable characteristics valuable to members of the opposite sex. It then goes on to show that the standard economics problem of utility maximisation is formally equivalent to the standard biology problem of the maximisation of individual fitness, the ability to pass genes to future generations. |
| 主题 | Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Natural selection Utility Darwin Sexual selection |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp5859 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/534738 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Gianni De Fraja. DP5859 The Origin of Utility. 2006. |
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