A procedure to test human behaviour under producer scrounger conditions

This paper examines the applicability of the ‘producer scrounger’ model, used in the biological literature to model social foraging, to human beings. It is argued that humans do find themselves in economically important situations that can be described by the producer scrounger dynamic.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

School of Economics

Year dc:date.issued

2012

Author dc:creator

• Etheredge, George

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Ross, Don

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11975

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11975