Yearly Archives: 2023

The Capitalocene in light of history: Or why an early Anthropocene makes more sense

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Several researchers argue that the root cause of today’s ecological disaster is not the anthropos, but the way we have been organizing the global economy through capitalism. It follows that we would be living in the Capitalocene rather than the Anthropocene. In this article, we demonstrate that the Capitalocene concept suffers from four intrinsic flaws

Social Preferences and the Distribution of Rewards

This paper analyzes the optimal reward scheme in an organization involving agents with social preferences whose tasks are complementary.