The Economics of Vampires

[Skatteflyktning]

Vel, da har noen økonomer fått opp øynene for problemet man har med vampyrer innen et økonomisk system med mennesker.

 

http://www.business.otago.ac.nz/econ/research/discussionpapers/DP_1301.pdf

 

The purpose of this study is to create a human-vampire ecosystem using artificial social simulation

This article contends that growing human-vampire economies can shed light on an array of social and economic issues

key characteristics defining this relationship between man and vampire emerge:

a) Vampires rely on humans as an essential food source.

b) Vampires use humans to reproduce.

c) Humans resist the interactions with vampires that result in (a) and (b) above, usually by producing wards (such as garlic) or defence measures (such as wooden stakes).

Once they have been eradicated, the human community and their corresponding economy proceeds to grow exponentially.

As they always have, vampires and their relationship with humans serve as a useful metaphor for a variety of economic problems. Consequently, the agent-based model above provides interesting insights on situations where vampires and humans interact.

 

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Vampires, Marxism and social revolution.

 

Vampire-lore has been used as a literary device to describe a relationship in which one person lives off another. Neocleous (2003) cites the example of the European feudal aristocracy collecting rents from the peasantry. Similar relationships exist between governments and their citizens (governments collect taxes and then spend) and large enterprises and their workers (owners earn profits on the workers output). As such, the agent-based model above suggests that social revolutions may sometimes occur if those who are fed by the efforts of others consume too much (e.g. governments become corrupt or firms under-pay labourers). Optimistically, the model predicts that the offending party (in these cases, the corrupt government or abusive employer) is inevitably driven to extinction if their actions are discovered.

Nailed it!

Endret 21. mai 2014 av Skatteflyktning

[nebrewfoz]

Oppkonstruerte scenarier innenfor økonomisk teori er ikke noe nytt. ("The Tragedy of the Commons" er vel ett av de mest kjente eksemplene på det.)

Introduksjonen av vampyrer gjør bare at det er så mye enklere å se at keiseren er naken.

[Gjest Slettet+9871234]

Hvem er Te Kura Paki?

 

Jeg finner ikke University of Otago på denne

 

http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2011/sep/06/top-100-world-university-rankings-economics-2011

 

eller disse

 

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2014/reputation-ranking

 

http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2013/economics-and-econometrics

 

listene.

 

Så hva er det nye fra dette New Zealand universitetet? Kan du forklare hovedbudskapet med egne ord i stedet for å klippe og lime sitater?

 

Der er skrevet mye tull i (samfunns)økonomi som i andre fag. Hvem er det du prøver å ovebevise? Lettlurte personer som ... ??

 

Hadde overskriften vært darwinistisk økonomi, hadde det hatt et snev av seriøsitet, da profittmaksimerede selskaper og selskaper som er for store til å feile kan minne om darwinistisk teori om "survival of the fittest". Dette er dog ikke noe nytt.

 

Forumet trenger en knapp som viser hvem som gir poeng til dette tøvet.

Endret 22. mai 2014 av Slettet+9871234

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Det her henger ikkje på greip

[Gjest Bruker-95147]

 

Nailed it!

 

 

Så bra for deg - du gav deg ikke, og du fant din sannhet til slutt, hurra for deg!

 

betyr det at nå blir det helt stille fra den kanten?