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Suboptimal Choices and the Need for Experienced Individual Well-Being in Economic Analysis [PDF]

Standard economic analysis assumes that people make choices that maximize their utility. Yet both popular discourse and other fields assume that people sometimes fail to make optimal choices and thus adversely affect their own happiness.
Hsee, Christopher K., Rottenstreich, Yuval, Stutzer, Alois   +2 more
core  

Austere Moral Ecologies and Artificial Agents

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract There are underappreciated moral costs for deploying artificially intelligent agents in our present bureaucratically and market‐structured world. Currently, AI systems lack the interiority and mutual vulnerability required for genuine moral relationality.
Manuel Vargas
wiley   +1 more source

Functional Traits Shape Seed-Rodent Interactions in a Subtropical Forest: Insights From Individual-Based Tracking With Double-Duplex PIT Tagging. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Gu H, Yang X, Dirzo R, Zhang Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

What Are The Drivers of Labor Productivity in Italy?

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper introduces a novel sign restriction identification within a structural Bayesian vector autoregression (VAR) to analyse how labour productivity responds to supply and demand shocks and to quantify the contribution of shocks to cyclical fluctuations.
Josué Diwambuena, Francesco Ravazzolo
wiley   +1 more source

Absence of anti-<i>Coxiella burnetii</i> antibodies in animal-hoarding individuals and their dogs living in a highly populated area. [PDF]

One Health
França DA, Silito IS, Kmetiuk LB, da Cunha GR, Morikawa VM, Langoni H, Labruna MB, Biondo AW.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Mitigations to Reduce the Law of Unintended Consequences for Autonomy and Other Technological Advances [PDF]

The United Nations states that Earths population is expected to reach just under 10 billion people (9.7) by the year 2050. To meet the demands of 10 billion people, governments, multinational corporations and global leaders are relying on autonomy and ...
Morris, A. Terry, Santiago-Espada, Yamira   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Discursive Power, Civilian Agency, Wartime Duress, and Resilience: Letters to the Authorities in the Blockade of Leningrad

The Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract How did World War II affect the nature and resilience of Soviet institutions and authority, especially in the extreme case of the Blockade of Leningrad? During the Blockade, Leningraders acted with great agency by engaging in the shadow trade of food and shadow talk for information and community in order to survive.
Jeffrey K. Hass, Nikita A. Lomagin
wiley   +1 more source

Innate defense mechanisms against Nosema ceranae in hygienic honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies. [PDF]

PLoS One
Miller MS, Boncristiani D, Evans J, Burnham PA, Barrett C, Wagoner K, Alger SA.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Behavioral syndromes and social insects: personality at multiple levels [PDF]

, 2013
Bengston, Sarah, Dornhaus, Anna, Jandt, Jennifer M., Pinter-Wollman, Noa, Pruitt, Jonathan N., Raine, Nigel E., Sih, Andrew   +6 more
core   +1 more source

“I Wish I Had Better Answers”: Organizational Ignorance in US Criminal Courts

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Systems of monetary sanctions in US criminal courts present an opportunity for furthering the sociological understanding of complex and consequential organizations. We examine whether and how court actors across eight states understand the organizational processes supporting the fiscal logic of legal financial obligations (LFOs).
Sarah K. S. Shannon, Gabriela Kirk‐Werner, Beth Huebner, Lacey Byram Moore   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source