Henkel, Joshua
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Item type:Publication, Economics & Biology: The whole is something besides the parts – a complementary approach to a bioeconomyThis paper examines relations between economics and biology regarding the historical background of these disciplines. Though economics is a social science its emergence has strong links to the natural sciences, especially to physics. This methodological basis seems to be mostly forgotten in mainstream economics. Since this methodology is based on the same principles of universal natural laws, it should make the branches of economics and biology compatible. Merging biology and economics could have a strong impact on finding solutions to our modern world sustainability problems and avoiding the dangers of the entropic abyss. This is only possible if mainstream economics is more open to assimilate information from outside its own field. Unequivocally, the most straightforward impact of a collaboration of these disciplines would be a biobased economy, that would tackle many problems our resource intensive and unsustainable economic system is facing at the moment.ReportBand:2210594 426 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The collapse of cooperation: The endogeneity of institutional break-up and its asymmetry with emergenceDecline and break-up of institutionalized cooperation, at all levels, has occurred frequently. Some of its concomitants, such as international migration, have become topical in the globalized world. Aspects of the phenomenon have also become known as failing states. However, the focus in most social sciences has been on institutional emergence and persistence, not collapse. We develop an endogenous explanation of collapsing institutions. Collapse may be an implication of the very economic success of institutionalized cooperation and of increasing system complexity, when cognitive conditions for effective collective decision-making do not proportionately evolve. Moreover, we show that collapse is not a simple logical reverse of emergence. Rather, institutions break up at different factor constellations than the ones prevailing at emergence. We approach endogenous institutional break-up and its asymmetry from various paradigmatic and disciplinary perspectives, employing psychology, anthropology, network analysis, and institutional economics. These perspectives cover individuals, groups, interaction-arenas, populations, and social networks.journal articleBand:#2004663 406 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Establishing Sustainable Consumption – How Future Policies Can Channel Consumer Preferences(2020-03-31); This paper relates cultural evolution theory and social learning dynamics to induced preference change in consumption behavior. We argue that the promotion of sustainable consumption via preference change is a cornerstone of future policy and should complement standard regimentations such as regulation for harm reduction in production and the investment in green technologies. The application of cultural evolution mechanisms may act as a key element for implementing future societal acceptance of responsible individual consumption and a trigger for the self-transformation of the economy. We will discuss what kind of policies can be used in future to channel our consumption preferences and build up an economic “presents for the future” scenario that will go beyond existing policy tools. An already established tool in behavioral economics that provides an elegant, cheap and often effective measure to promote green behavior is “green nudging.” However, it comes at the cost of being perceived as paternalistic and non-transparent. In addition, nudging requires the alteration of a very specific choice architecture for every single consumption decision scenario and is therefore limited in its scope of application and – most importantly – long-term effectiveness. Here we offer a more general behavioral approach for future environmental policy. We argue that preference change for consumption can be induced by policy makers using tools drawn from cultural evolution. We develop concrete scenarios for policy makers to induce pro-environmental preferences within consumer populations. We argue that our approach is likely to induce alteration of existing and the establishment of new consumption patterns on a much larger scale than nudging and will be more successful in establishing permanent future effects.journal article593 507 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Changing Consumer Behavior by Green Nudges - Developing Policies for a more Sustainable Economy(2023-06-30); ; ; Diese Dissertation untersucht Green Nudging als wirtschaftspolitisches Instrument zur Förderung nachhaltigen Konsumverhaltens. Green Nudging basiert auf subtilen Veränderungen in der Entscheidungsumgebung, um umweltfreundliches Verhalten zu fördern, ohne Zwang auszuüben. Obwohl dieses Konzept in einigen Bereichen der Politikgestaltung erfolgreich war, weist die Forschung auf seine Grenzen hin – insbesondere auf seine oft kurzfristige Wirkung und ethische Bedenken hinsichtlich möglicher Manipulation. Die Arbeit integriert Erkenntnisse aus Psychologie, Anthropologie und Neurowissenschaften, um Konsumverhalten besser zu verstehen und politische Maßnahmen so zu gestalten, dass sie langfristige Verhaltensänderungen bewirken. Während Regierungen weltweit, darunter die USA, Großbritannien, Deutschland und Australien, verhaltenswissenschaftliche Ansätze in ihre Politik integriert haben, zeigen Studien, dass klassische Nudges allein oft nicht ausreichen, um dauerhafte Veränderungen herbeizuführen. Das Ziel dieser Dissertation ist es, das Nudge-Konzept weiterzuentwickeln, indem Mechanismen aus der kulturellen Evolutionstheorie einbezogen werden. Dadurch sollen tiefgreifendere und nachhaltigere Veränderungen im Konsumverhalten erreicht werden.doctoral thesis59 90 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Enhanced “Green Nudging”: Tapping the Channels of Cultural Transmission(2022-09-28); This paper relates channels of cultural transmission to “green nudging”. It studies the effectiveness of this behavioral policy measure as to the promotion of sustainable consumption. The impact of “green nudges” is constrained for it is subject to decay and temporary behavioral adjustments. We argue that “enhanced green nudges” incorporating social learning biases that are based on humans’ evolved capacity for culture are more likely to entail persistent behavioral changes due to the inducement of preference learning. We consider biases based on norm psychology, conformity, self-similarity, and the influence of role models. Moreover, these biases’ effectiveness in cultural transmission hinges on whether the learning environment resembles the one in which they evolved during human phylogeny. Hence, “enhanced green nudges” are instruments to lastingly introduce environmentally begin consumption patterns. Several scenarios based on a model of cultural evolution illustrate our arguments.journal articleBand:2208442 518