Economics and Business
There is a burgeoning interest in evolutionary and behavioral approaches to economics and business. The overlap of law and economics is well established. Business and other forms of human economic activity are major topics within the law, since law, together with informal rules, provide the “rules of the game” in which markets function. The Institute’s research in this area includes investigating: property and human behavior; cooperation and trust between individuals and within firms; behavioral building blocks of free enterprise (that is, what behavioral building blocks are necessary for a system of free enterprise to work effectively: e.g. trust, reciprocity, self-interest, and the effects of personal versus impersonal exchange on these various components); workplace behavior; risk and decision making; and the foundational expectations for commitment and reward which are at the heart of group activities.
Economics and Business Conference List
Debate: Markets Are Moral. Chaired by Professor Oliver Goodenough, New York University, Stern School of Business. November 27, 2007.
Workshop: “Meeting of the Minds”. The Institute for Law and Rationality of the University of Minnesota Law School. August 24-25, 2007.
Debate: Are Markets Moral? Chaired by Professor Brigitte Granville, Queen Mary, University of London. April 24, 2007.
Symposium: “Moral Markets: A Symposium On Values, Economics And The Brain”. Gruter Institute and the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies, April 13, 2007.
Working Conference: “Free Enterprise: Values in Action.” Gruter Institute/John Templeton Foundation Program Co-Sponsored by Harvard Business School and The UCLA – Sloan Foundation Research Program on Business Organizations, June 20-21, 2006.
Conference: “The Neuroeconomics of Impaired Decision-Making.” Claremont Graduate University Center of Neuroeconomics Studies, Claremont, CA. April 21, 2006.
Working Conference: “Free Enterprise: Values in Action.” Gruter Institute/John Templeton Foundation Program Co-Sponsored by Centre for Business Research at Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge and The UCLA – Sloan Foundation Research Program on Business Organizations, March 23, 24, and 25, 2006.
Working Conference: “Free Enterprise: Values in Action.” Gruter Institute/John Templeton Foundation Program Co-Sponsored by Georgetown University Law Center and The UCLA – Sloan Foundation Research Program on Business Organizations, January 13-14, 2006.
Working Conference: “Free Enterprise: Values in Action.” Gruter Institute/John Templeton Foundation Program Co-Sponsored by UCLA School of Law and The UCLA – Sloan Foundation Research Program on Business Organizations, September 9-10, 2005.
Roundtable Workshop: ” Free Enterprise: Values in Action.” Squaw Valley, CA, May 26-27, 2005.
Workshop: “Workshop: From Personal to Impersonal Trusted Exchange in The Physical and Digital Domains: An Evolutionary Perspective.” Gruter Institute and Berkman Center Roundtable Series, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, April 27, 2005.
Workshop: “Cooperative Structures and Institutions: Evolutionary, Legal and Digital Perspectives.” Gruter Institute and Berkman Center Roundtable Series, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, March 30, 2005.
Workshop: “Emotions, Retaliation and the ‘Culture of Honor’: An Evolutionary and Neuroscience Approach.” Gruter Institute and Berkman Center Roundtable Series, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, March 3, 2005.
Workshop: Trust, Civil Society, and Economic Development.”, Gruter Institute and Berkman Center Roundtable Series, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, November 17, 2004.
Conference: “Must We Choose Between Rationality and Irrationality?”, a Law Review Symposium, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, November 6, 2004.
Workshop: “Honest Signaling and Other Strategies for Building Reliability and Trust on the Internet”, Gruter Institute and Berkman Center Roundtable Series, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, October 13, 2004.
Workshop: “Introductory Session: From Personal to Impersonal Trusted Exchange — An Evolutionary and Neuro-economic Perspective,” as part of the Gruter Institute and Berkman Center Roundtable Series, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, September 22, 2004.
Conference:” Behavioral Building Blocks of Free Enterprise.” Squaw Valley, CA, May 24-25, 2004.
Workshop: “Evolutionary Biology and the Social Sciences.” Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA. March 27, 2002.
Conference: “Evolutionary Biology, Economics, and Law.” Squaw Valley, CA, May 31 – June 6, 2001.
Conference: “Law, Behavioral Biology and Economics” Arizona State University College of Law. November 17-18, 2000.
Conference: “Evolutionary Biology, Economics, Business and Law:” Squaw Valley, CA June 11-14, 2000.
Conference: “Law, Evolutionary Biology, and The Sense of Justice:” Squaw Valley, CA. June 7-10, 2000.
Seminar: “Evolutionary Biology, Economics, Business, and Law:” University of California at Berkeley, January 29, 2000.
Seminar: “Biology in the Boardroom:” University of Cambridge, UK, January 11, 2000.
Conference: “Consumer Choice/Market Forces in the Selection of Dispute Resolution Procedures,” Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, sponsored by the Gruter Institute, Ann and Gordon P. Getty Foundation, and Georgetown University Law Center, November 6 and 7, 1998.
Conference: “Law, Risk, and Risk Management,” University of California- Berkeley, CA, Sept. 29 – Oct. 4, 1996.
Fact finding trip to Moscow, Russia – Steering Committee of the Gruter Institute, as a result of the below conference. May 20-24, 1992.
Conference: “From a Centrally-Planned Government System to a Rule-of-Law Democracy,” Siemens Stiftung, Munich, Germany, May 18-19, 1992.
Conference: “The Interaction of Law, Biology, and Economics in the Areas of Property, Trust and Competition,” Tauberbischofsheim, Germany. May 30 – June 1, 1991.
Conference: “The Interaction of Law, Biology, and Economics in the Areas of Property, Economy and Environmental Protection,” Tauberbischofsheim, Germany. May 27-29, 1991.
Conference: “Ethology, Property, Economics, and Growth.” Squaw Valley, CA, May 18-21, 1990.
Workshop: “The Relevance of Ethology for Environmental Protection.” Munich, Germany, March 26-28, 1990.
Conference: “Ethology and Law: Competition and Trust in German and American Law,” Bad Homburg, Germany, May 22-24, 1989.
Panel: “Convergence of Evolutionary Theory, Economics, and Political Science” at the annual meeting of American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco, CA, January 19, 1989.