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Result: The Failure of Neoclassical Economics Modelling and Human Behavioural Ecology to Satisfactorily Explain the Evolution of Neolithic Society

Title:
The Failure of Neoclassical Economics Modelling and Human Behavioural Ecology to Satisfactorily Explain the Evolution of Neolithic Society
Authors:
Tisdell, Clement Allan, Svizzero, Serge
Contributors:
The University of Queensland (UQ [All campuses : Brisbane, Dutton Park Gatton, Herston, St Lucia and other locations]), Centre d'Économie et de Management de l'Océan Indien (CEMOI), Université de La Réunion (UR)
Publisher Information:
CCSD, 2015.
Publication Year:
2015
Collection:
collection:SHS
collection:AFRIQ
collection:UNIV-REUNION
collection:AO-ECONOMIE
collection:CEMOI
collection:CAMPUS-AAR
collection:AAI
collection:PAPANGUE
Subject Terms:
Economic evolution, economic optimisation, human behavioural ecology, hunter-gatherers, Neolithic Revolution, satisficing behaviour, JEL: D - Microeconomics, D.D0 - General, D.D0.D01 - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles, JEL: O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth, O.O1 - Economic Development, O.O1.O10 - General, JEL: P - Economic Systems, P.P0 - General, P.P0.P00 - General, JEL: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics • Environmental and Ecological Economics, Q.Q1 - Agriculture, Q.Q1.Q10 - General, [SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences, Economics and Finance
Original Identifier:
HAL: hal-02152047
Document Type:
Electronic Resource preprint<br />Preprints<br />Working Papers
Language:
English
Access URL:
https://hal.univ-reunion.fr/hal-02152047
https://hal.univ-reunion.fr/hal-02152047v1/document
https://hal.univ-reunion.fr/hal-02152047v1/file/WP71.pdf
Rights:
info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess
Accession Number:
edshal.hal.02152047v1
Database:
HAL

Further Information

Economic Theory, Applications and Issues, Working Paper No. 71
Examines two parallel approaches, one in economics and the other in anthropology, intended to explain the behaviours of Neolithic societies, particularly their transit from foraging to agriculture. Both approaches assume that human behaviour is a response to rational human decisions to optimise. The application of microeconomic theory by a Danish professor to explain the transition of foragers to agriculture and the corresponding complementary views of some American anthropologists about this transition are outlined and discussed. While these approaches provide valuable insights into the evolution of Neolithic societies, it is also important to be aware of their limitations, several of which are identified in this article. Such approaches are unlikely to provide a general theory of the evolution of Neolithic societies. Because of the diversity of human behaviours, a range of theories are required.